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Salaam Bombay!
- Director: Mira Nair
- Writer: Mira Nair; Sooni Taraporevala
- Producer: Gabriel Auer; Jane Balfour
CGiii Comment
Nominated for an Oscar - a harsh tale...without the fairy-tale ending...as you would expect from an Indian production.
This is not Bollywood...thankfully.
A very fine film indeed.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but the life on the streets of Bombay is not easy.
Cast & Characters
Shafiq Syed as Krishna / Chaipau;
Hansa Vithal as Manju Golub;
Chanda Sharma as Sola Saal;
Raghuvir Yadav as Chillum;
Anita Kanwar as Rekha Golub;
Nana Patekar as Baba Golub;
Anjaan as Child at the circus;
Amrit Patel as Circus Boss;
Murari Sharma as Ticket Seller;
Ram Moorti as Mad Man;
Sarfuddin Qureshi as Koyla;
Raju Barnad as Keera;
Irshad Hashmi as Chacha;
Mohanraj Babu as Salim;
Chandrashekhar Naidu as Chungal