Salaam Bombay (Widescreen Special Edition)
by Mira Nair
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Actor: Anita Kanwar, Chanda Sharma, Hansa Vithal, Raghuvir Yadav, Shafiq SyedDirector: Mira Nair
Cinematographer: Sandi Sissel
Producer: Mira Nair
Writer: Mira Nair
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Producer: Gabriel Auer
Writer: Sooni Taraporevala
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hindi (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Salaam Bombay (Widescreen Special Edition)
Movie Review: Salaam Bombay!
Summary: 5 Stars
Having seen most of director, Mira Nair's other films, I felt I was long overdue for this one, and I WAS! I find it hard to believe that she was only 30 years old when she directed this very powerful film. Of course, location was important in its impact on the viewer, but it took me several days for the visual force of this film to leave my mind. Actually, I watched it again, a week later, and found it all the more touching and overwhelming in how it depicts an amazing culture and the more amazing street children of Bombay. Nair brings a huge sensitivity and compassion to her subject matter, and while I wish I had seen it sooner, I am grateful that I have at least seen it now, and will again, many times in the future. The message is clear: we are all one people, one heart, one blood, and we must all take care of one another, AND this planet, or we will ALL perish. An extraordinary experience.
Pru McDonald
Summary of Salaam Bombay (Widescreen Special Edition)
From director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this "brilliantly achieved, stunning and powerful" (Los Angeles Times) film "burst onto the Indian cinema scene with the force of a tornado" (Time Out London)! Winner of the Cam?ra d'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar? in 1989, this riveting look at life on the hardened streets of Bombay went on to accumulate accolades and awards across the globe! Forced to leave his family at a very young age, Krishna lives on the streets with pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and other homeless children. He earns very little money - but it's more than most - delivering tea so he can return home to his family. But his honest plan is foiled when his hard-earned money is stolen by his closest friend, forcing Krishna to follow in the footsteps of so many street children of Bombay.by turning to a life of crime.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 Cam?ra D'Or at Cannes in 1988. --Sean Axmaker
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