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est. $7.5 million (overseas) Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi -language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai ...
Salaam Bombay!: Directed by Mira Nair. With Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma. Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
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- Mira Nair
- 1988-10-07
Jun 18, 2021 · Salaam Bombay! ranks with the masterpieces of neo-realism. Mira Nair’s stunning debut exploring the lives of Indian street children carries the narrative’s rich ambiguity through to its final scene, as Alex Dudok de Wit wrote in this piece first published in our October 2017 issue. 18 June 2021. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Drama 1989 114 mins. Director: Mira Nair. Kermode introduces. Overview Overview. Unjustly accused of stealing and cast out of his home village by his family, 11-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) joins the swathes of dispossessed street children in the slums of Mumbai. Sleeping in the rubble of the city, he struggles to survive in his merciless new ...
Roger Ebert. October 28, 1988. 5 min read. The history of the making of “Salaam Bombay!” is almost as interesting as the film itself. The filmmakers gathered a group of the street children of Bombay and talked with them about their experiences, visiting the streets and train stations, bazaars and red-light districts where many of them lived.
Description by Wikipedia. Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay, India's largest city.
Salaam Bombay! (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
