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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Mira Nair
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Actors:
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Ram Moorti,
Shafiq Syed,
Hansa Vithal,
Chanda Sharma,
Anjaan,
Murari Sharma,
Raghuvir Yadav,
Anita Kanwar,
Nana Patekar,
Amrit Patel
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)92.5
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Plot Summary:
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Encouragement on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay is the determined fib of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered next to Nair), a wretch kicked at fault of his severely, and abandoned by the traveling circus he had joined. In rashness, he uses the little medium of exchange he has to pay off a entire-scheme ticket to the nearest municipality, which turns far-off to be Bombay. Come back a movie morning star, the ticket agency tells him mockingly. In Bombay, Krishna joins a small community of in someone's bailiwick kids, and gets a chore delivering tea. Soon, pe... rson in the downtrodden neighborhood knows him as Chaipau (tea boy). Krishna wants to obviate five hundred rupees, enough greenbacks to get back into his mother's good graces and return home. Chillum (Raghubir Yadav), a streetwise babyish mankind who deals drugs in search the neighbouring kingpin, Baba (Nana Patekar), takes Krishna under his wing. The sly but cruel Baba has a mistress, Rekha (Aneeta Kanwar), who works as a prostitute. She has a young daughter, Manju (Hansa Vithal), who has a vanquish on Krishna, but Krishna simply has eyes for the girl they call Pretty Sixteen, a virginal young man who is being calculated into prostitution. Eventually, Baba fires the ill-humoured Chillum, and Krishna finds himself struggling to stay fresh Chillum alive by supporting his downer habit. Many of the roles in the film are played by non-actors, including the street kids, and an actual madame who allowed Nair to film over scenes in her sporting house. The Harvard-critical Nair began her filmmaking career working on documentaries. Salaam Bombay, her narrative feature debut, won worldwide critical acclaim, and was awarded the Camera D'Or at Cannes. She and the integument's screenwriter, Sooni Taraporevala, also collaborated on Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington.~ Josh Ralske, All Talking picture Guide
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Salaam Bombay!
Dickensian in its empathy with the exhausted, uncompromising in its realism and pushy in both scope and technique, Mira Nair's debut mark is of the most arresting studies of street vivacity ever made. Instantaneously on location after numerous workshops had tired together a tinge made up mostly of homeless children, the tall tale of a wild's assimilation into the perilous world of paltry crime, drugs and prostitution draws on all Nair's documentary experience. But it also demonstrates her skill in coaxing a discharge of disarming naturalism from Shafiq Syed as the 11-year-disused whose display of moxie prevents the blur from enhancing too painful or sentimental.
Salaam Bombay!
This is Nair's in motion account of a issue exiled guy's experiences on the streets of Bombay, with the beggars, hustlers, dealers, prostitutes (played at near non-professionals), and, most frighteningly, numerous other children - in point of fact recruited from the streets, giving the film an extra documentary air of authenticity. Despite the awful setting, the colours are disarmingly regal, the Bollywood lushness conflicting with the downbeat under discussion occurrence but at the last mythical against the picture's histrionic resonance.
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