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Salaam Bombay!
- Original title
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Salaam Bombay!
- Year
- 1988
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
 India- Director
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- Screenwriter
Sooni Taraporevala - Music
L. Subramaniam - Cinematography
Sandi Sissel - 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, Mohanraj Babu, Chandrashekhar Naidu, Krishna Thapa, Shaukat Kaifi, Haneef Zahoor, Jamila, Ramesh Rai, Shaukat H. Inamdar, Irrfan Khan, Neal Gettinger, Yunus Parvez, Habib Azmi, Ramesh Goyal, Sanjana Kapoor, Biswadeep Chatterjee, Ajju Kasam, Double Battery Stafford, Rana Singh, Dinshaw Daji, Jayant Joshi, Prashant Jaiswal, Joyce Barneto, Hassan Kutty, Preshit Shringarpure, B.D. Sharma, Dilip Das, Alfred Anthony, Ramesh Deshavani, Anjan Srivastav, Eric Paymaster, Sulabha Deshpande, Mohan Tantaru, Sheikh HaroonSee 33 More
- Producer
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Co-production India-France-United Kingdom;
Cadrage, Film4 Productions, Doordarshan, Forum Films, La Sept Cinéma, Mirabai Films, National Film Development Corporation of India
- Genre
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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.
- Awards
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1988: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture
1988: Cannes Film Festival: Golden Camera & Audience Award
1988: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
1989: BAFTA Awards: Best Film not in the English Language
1988: César Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
1988: National Board of Review: Top Foreign Films
1988: Montréal World Film Festival: Jury Prize
1988: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: New Generation Award. 2 Nom.
1988: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Foreign Language Film
- Critics' reviews
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"Poetic, powerful and disturbing, Salaam Bombay transcends language and cultural barriers."
Peter Travers: People Magazine
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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."
Rupert Smith: Time Out
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