Salaam Bombay!
1988 · Movie · 114 min. · India
Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming job of staying alive quickly makes that dream an unreality. He develops the street-smarts needed to survive in the seedy world of prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, and other homeless children, but the harrowing experience takes an extremely heavy emotional toll on him. Although Krishna keeps trying to raise the money to return home, it is, in the end, a hopeless task.
Direction Mira Nair
Cast Shafiq Syed · Raghuvir Yadav · Aneeta Kanwar · Nana Patekar · Hansa Vithal · Chanda Sharma · Nitesh Anjaan · Amrit Patel · Murari Sharma · Ram Murthy · Sarfuddin Qureshi · Raju Barnad · Irshad Hashmi · Mohanraj Babu · Chandrashekhar Naidu · Krishna Thapa · Shaukat Kaifi · Haneef Zahoor · Jamila · Ramesh Rai · Shaukat H. Inamdar · Irrfan Khan · Neal Gettinger · Yunus Parvez · Habib Azmi · Ramesh Goyal · Sanjana Kapoor · Biswadeep Chatterjee · Ajju Kasam · Double Battery Stafford · Rana Singh · Dinshaw Daji · Jayant Joshi · Prashant Jaiswal · Joyce Barneto · Hassan Kutty · Preshit Shringarpure · B.D. Sharma · Dilip Das · Alfred Anthony · Ramesh Deshavani · Anjan Srivastav · Eric Paymaster · Sulabha Deshpande · Mohan Tantaru · Sheikh Haroon
Soundtrack L. Subramaniam
Screenplay Sooni Taraporevala
Cinematography Sandi Sissel
Original title Salaam Bombay!
7.0
844 votes (FilmAffinity)
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