Salaam Bombay!

Director: Mira Nair

Writer: Mira Nair,Sooni Taraporevala,Hriday Lani

Countries of origin: India, United States, France, United Kingdom

Language: Hindi, English

Release date: October 7, 1988

Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes

Sound mix: Stereo

Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

Also known as: Hello Bombay!

Mira Nair 's first feature film, "Salaam Bombay!" (SALLAM BOMBAY!), about the harrowing life of a young boy struggling in the slums of Mumbai, powerfully uncovers the homeless in a documentary style and realism The tragic experience of children, although it is a debut, but stable and mature, won the 1988 Cannes International Film Festival director's debut award in one fell swoop .

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By Francisca 2022-11-22 09:13:41

hello mumbai

I'm making up Indian movies recently because of my class, and today's topic is "Mira Nair".
The rough images, shaky long shots, and noisy voice-overs seem to be a kind of neorealism. So much so that at first I thought this film was a documentary, but as the story progressed, I gradually discovered the director's unmarked, smooth and clear narrative.
The little boy and the girl who was sold into the brothel have pure feelings. The boy's naivety when he ran away from home and...
By Laury 2022-07-07 17:30:02

utter despair

The director of this film is Mira Nair. I remember the last time I saw her film was "Monsoon Dinner", a film about the Indian middle class, and that film was optimistic. This film is completely different. Watching this film, I feel like I am watching a desperate career depicting the bottom class in India, and there is no hope at all. In this world, there are only slums of pimps, tramps, prostitutes, thieves, drug dealers, and addicts. No one gives you hope, and if there is hope, it will be...
By Marcelino 2022-07-07 17:27:11

Salaam Bombay

Salaam Bombay describes street children and people from the fringes of society.
In this movie, most female and children characters are victims
Krishna is abandoned by his family and society. He shows innocent and compassionate at the beginning. But finally, he killed Baba. The last screen of this movie is Krishna stares into the camera and weeps.
Sweet Sixteen: a young girl from...
By Dashawn 2022-07-07 13:41:16

good morning naked life

Mira Nair, who was born in a documentary, captures the dark side of life at the bottom of India with precision and ruthlessness. On the muddy streets, people are crowded with dust, surrounded by stalls flying with mosquitoes, rampant tricycles, and old colonial buildings. Consisting of drug dealers, drug addicts, pimps, prostitutes, prostitutes, and street children, under the background of religion and separation, the interlaced scenes of the bottom-level life video...
By Rocio 2022-07-07 13:40:45

elder sister

I saw a desolate city in the rain.
Sister, what I see is just like your skirt is uncovered.
Sometimes people's eyes are really like a sword.
The way you fall into the water with your bare feet is being pierced by their imagination.

The neon on the street has been quietly lit up, shining.
Your leather skirt is still glowing with rust in the corner of the trunk.
They say that flies and worms meander to give people desire.
The snail is still crawling, the...

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By Einar 2023-08-22 17:17:22

"How can the state be her...
By Alexys 2023-08-09 06:33:11

It is very powerful, and the super concise brushwork depicts super vivid group portraits and complex underlying ecology. The more deeply the warmth in the mud, the more moving, the more the humorous joy bursting out of the blood, the more sentimental. He was abandoned on the street, but he kept trying to save people. Save the little prostitute, save the "brother", save the little sister, save the mother of the prostitute, but no one can save, let alone myself. The opening song is a powerful...
By Alvis 2023-07-27 01:15:20

The best Indian movies I've seen (Rey's haven't started yet), and in front of this, Slumdog Millionaire, Aamir Khan's ones, are mediocre. Realism is indeed my favorite style during this period. Those children's performances, too Nima went straight to my heart. After 32 years, are the street children still earning 500...
By Jessika 2023-07-11 14:38:53

The story of a child who cannot go home. I feel like part of the appeal comes from the...
By Kiarra 2023-07-09 14:06:28

The depiction of the bottom layer, especially the children, is very realistic. In this film, the family degenerates to a near-primitive state, loses its full protective function, and those who bear family responsibilities and friends become traitors and parasites. In the end, when love annihilates and loses everything, will the boy be the next to abandon everything? Why Home...

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