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Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) adds her angry voice to the cinema of forgotten children in this wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real-life street kid Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless kids and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets. The fantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters, movies, and radio tunes, momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by brutal pimps and drug dealers. In the tradition of Los Olvidados and Pixote, former documentarian Nair’s feature debut is shot entirely in the slums of Bombay with a largely nonprofessional cast from the same streets. Though the drama is at times misty and melodramatic, her clear-eyed look at the mercenary world around these ultimately fragile forgotten children earned her the Caméra D’Or at Cannes in 1988. –Sean Axmaker
From director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this “brilliantly achieved, stunning and p (more…)
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Salaam Bombay!
Having seen most of director, Mira Nair’s other films, I felt I was long overdue for this one, and I WAS!
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Great Movie
Salaam Bombay has been one of my favorate movies for many years. It show how street life is in India. I highly enjoyed this movie
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I’ve seen the movie 4 or 5 times.
One of the best Indian movies and one of my top 25 movies.
Fine production.
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Brilliant!
It is a tear jerker and a film everyone should watch at least once. A very powerful message. Walk away happy knowing the director adopted one of the homeless boys in real life…
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Definitely Not Bollywood
In much of the movie, it doesn’t seem like they’re acting, which is to say the performances are VERY believable.
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Definitely a classic
I’ve never seen such unflinching honesty from a film-maker, or from an artist in any medium, now that I think of it.
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Exceptional work of art!
The music to Salaam Bombay spans the emotional spectrum from joyous to tragic, with every nuance between.
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Salaam Bombay
Former documentarist Mira Nair’s angry, disconsolate, and deeply moving drama about poverty and child homelessness in India was shot on location and stars a cast of non-actors the…
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Resilient and Resourceful Children
I’m glad I bought this – wouldn’t have missed it for the world. The fact that it’s a docu-drama makes it all the more watchable – you know a lot of the children are really street…
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Great edition of this -must have- movie
This is fantastic movie with such a warm and moving story. This edition includes director naration options as well as the director of photography.