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Dominican Rep. Salaam Bombay!
- Original title
- Salaam Bombay!
- Year
- 1988
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
India- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- 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
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production India-France-United Kingdom;
- Genre
- Drama | Social Drama. Poverty
- Synopsis
- 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.
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- Awards
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1988: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture1988: Cannes Film Festival: Golden Camera & Audience Award1988: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film1989: BAFTA Awards: Best Film not in the English Language1988: César Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)1988: National Board of Review: Top Foreign Films
- Critics' reviews
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"Poetic, powerful and disturbing, Salaam Bombay transcends language and cultural barriers."
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"Shot entirely on location with its child actors recruited from the streets, Salaam Bombay! enters into its subjects' lives with rare authority and absolute compassion."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 26 My Favorite Indian Movies (8)
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