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Shot on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay is the gritty tale of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered by Nair), a boy kicked out of his home, and abandoned by the traveling circus he had joined. In desperation, he uses the little money he has to buy a one-way ticket to the nearest city, which .. Read more

Starring	Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav
Director	Mira Nair
Genres	Bollywood, Drama

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- The streets of Bombay teem with children begging, dealing, sleeping rough, surviving. Working on a scale that would... read more on Time Out
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  Top movie
  
  This is not Bollywood infact you couldn't get further from it.
  
  A young boy who ends up living in an underground world of drugs and prostitution ... read more »
  
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  - 07 Nov 2003 at 17:05
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  Incredible Acting
  
  Earnest and ultimately pessimistic view of life for the street urchins of Bombay. Presumably it's changed for the better in the last fourteen years, but I ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
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  - Lydbury North
  - 30 Dec 2011 at 19:59
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  strong excellent
  
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  for me it was a great film a real hearty film with some real life issues documented in mumbai a real tough overview of real life in india and we think weve got ... read more »
  
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  - 01 Nov 2011 at 16:28
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  Salaam Baalak trust, an inspiration...
  
  Unbelievable..brilliant if not extremely sad and moving portrayal of life as a street child in India. Having visited a home set up by the Salaam Baalak Trust ... read more »
  
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- - EmandNels
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  - 13 Jul 2011 at 21:17
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  Life's like that!
  
  Was looking for a good film to watch this quiet Sunday and found it! It had me laughing and crying....the harshness of life and how molly-coddled our own in ... read more »
  
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- - ASouthLondoner
  - 1 review
  - 10 Jul 2011 at 13:42
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  salaam bombay
  
  This is an interesting DVD, in that it shows you the grim reality of indian life, I suppose it makes you realise just how easy we have life in the west. Not the... read more »
  
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- - simes
  - 212 reviews
  - near Gloucester
  - 08 Jun 2010 at 16:31
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  Slumdog without the glitz
  
  Was hoping there would be a happy ending but that's just in fairy tales and this seems very much like life on the streets.
  
  Avoid if you were ... read more »
  
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  - Lytham
  - 13 May 2010 at 23:35
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  Just about okay
  
  Had heard a lot about this movie getting awards etc. It was kind of digestable..... just about. You can miss this movie and not lose much. If you have time at ... read more »
  
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  - Preston
  - 19 Mar 2010 at 09:13
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  Gritty,realistic and brilliant!
  
  Having visited India several times this film really takes me back into the slums and back streets of this country which faces huge social and economic problems... read more »
  
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  - Skegness
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  Gave an insight into indian culture.
  
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  - Wiltshire England
  - 15 Dec 2009 at 13:02
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  The truth
  
  That slumdog millionaire wasn't
  
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- - 21
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  Top movie
  
  This is not Bollywood infact you couldn't get further from it.
  
  A young boy who ends up living in an underground world of drugs and prostitution ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 07 Nov 2003 at 17:05
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  All the colour and all the misery of life in a big Indian city.
  
  India has moved on a great deal since 1988 when this film was made and Bombay and Madras have proudly reclaimed their ancient names. But the Mumbai and Chennai... read more »
  
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  - 11 Aug 2005 at 12:05
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  Real,moving and yes...... slow
  
  The film revolves around the dreams of Krishna, a boy who dreams of returning to his native village after earning 500 rupees in the big bad Bombay.
  
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- - arun
  - Liverpool, UK
  - 12 May 2005 at 18:53
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  A Great movie to watch
  
  Mira Nair is really a great director .In this story of description of India's everlast existing burning problem Child Labour.
  
  The narration was ... read more »
  
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- - Srinivasareddy Munagala
  - London
  - 25 Feb 2005 at 02:10
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  Very moving
  
  The young actor, Shafiq Syed is a find. This sort of life goes on in Bombay whilst our British news devotes 15 minutes of a 30 minute slot to a football team! ... read more »
  
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- - crispin40
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  - Stirling, Scotland
  - 27 May 2005 at 21:43
- - 4
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  Hasn't aged a bit
  
  This movie was quite incredible. I watched it with friends who completely forgot their aversion to subtitles in being drawn in to this tragic and honest story. ... read more »
  
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  - Kent England
  - 05 Jul 2005 at 08:16
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  A Class Act
  
  If you liked 'City of God' - and from its rating on this website it's clear it made a big impression then I can thoroughly recommend this film. I ... read more »
  
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- - PaulG2
  - London
  - 25 Dec 2005 at 19:16
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  An AMAZING film!
  
  I adored this film, in the list of the best 10 films of my life, both the images and the music are haunting and I can't take them ... read more »
  
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  - Bermondsey, London
  - 13 Nov 2006 at 13:59
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  Exceptional film
  
  This is an exceptional film. What is equally exceptional is the story of the making of the film, and for that listening to the director’s commentary is ... read more »
  
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- - mityo
  - London
  - 06 Jun 2004 at 17:08
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  Brilliant
  
  Salaam Bombay was a sheer gem of a film. Its essential storyline of deceit and living on the edge of exsistence really provided a magnificent subject which was ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Mar 2005 at 23:00

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  Shot on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay is the gritty tale of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered by Nair), a boy kicked out of his home, and abandoned by the traveling circus he had joined. In desperation, he uses the little money he has to buy a one-way ticket ...