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- Urban Ghetto LifeKids in TroubleLife is a BitchMind and SoulSocietyYouthFamily RelationsYoung Heroes more...
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- DramaForeignRealism
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- 20th Century80s
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Salaam Bombay!, 1988
Hindi, English
UK, India, France
Profile of Salaam Bombay!
The mood of Salaam Bombay! is bittersweet, sentimental, and captivating. The plot centers around kids in trouble, life in an urban ghetto, and themes of life is a bitch. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, Salaam Bombay! features realism. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is India. Salaam Bombay! happens in the 1980s. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Salaam Bombay!
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.
Details
| Language: | Hindi, English |
| Country: | UK, India, France |
| Release date: | 7 October 1988 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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as Manju Golub
as Sola Saal
as Baba Golub
as Rekha Golub
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