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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 ...
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. “Indian cinema can sometimes be lazily presented as a ...
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.
The New York Times reviewed Salaam Bombay! after it premiered in Cannes in 1988, describing Bombay as “a city where life is just barely possible.” Irony reeks from this Western perspective— albeit Chaipau’s grim and longing realities only push him deeper into the metropolis’ oblivion, it is the promise of the Bombay Dream that drives him to see his dreams of stability be flushed in ...
Thrust into the life of the street children of Bombay, living among the pimps, hustlers, drug addicts, prostitutes, and throw away children that proliferate in India's urban settlements, a modern day jungle, Krishna struggles to survive. His resourcefulness holds him in good stead. He quickly develops some street smarts and forms attachments.
The sad thing is that, more than 30 years later, there are still so many youngsters living in the same conditions as his on-screen alter ego. Tough, uncompromising, touching and so very moving, Salaam Bombay! remains an important film and has lost none of its impact. Performances 8. Direction 7. Screenplay 8. Soundtrack 8. Originality 7. Extras 6.
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Salaam Bombay is a treat to watch and is modern filmmaking at its very best. The Academy Award Loss and blissful ignorance by the home media was baffling to say the least. If films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ can sweep the Oscars, the audience does expect art like Salaam Bombay to win at least one golden statuette.
