Salaam Bombay! (1988)

Director:

Mira Nair

Writers:

Mira Nair (story)
Sooni Taraporevala (screenplay)
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Release Date:

7 October 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

The story of Krishna, Manju, Chillum and the other children on the streets of Bombay. Sometimes they can get a temporary job sellng tea...

Plot Keywords:

Job | Bombay | Tea | Drugs | Police

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Shafiq Syed	...	Krishna / Chaipau
Hansa Vithal	...	Manju Golub
Chanda Sharma	...	Sola Saal
Raghuvir Yadav	...	Chillum (as Raghubir Yadav)
Anita Kanwar	...	Rekha Golub (as Aneeta Kanwar)
Nana Patekar	...	Baba Golub
Anjaan	...	Child at the circus
Amrit Patel	...	Circus Boss
Murari Sharma	...	Ticket Seller
Ram Moorti	...	Mad Man
Sarfuddin Qureshi	...	Koyla (as Sarfuddin Quarassi)
Raju Barnad	...	Keera
Irshad Hashmi	...	Chacha
Mohanraj Babu	...	Salim
Chandrashekhar Naidu	...	Chungal
Krishna Thapa	...	Nepali Middleman (as Kishan Thapa)
Shaukat Azmi	...	Bordal owner
Haneef Zahoor	...	Bouncer
Jamila	...	Woman at the bordal
Ramesh Rai	...	Barber
Shaukat H. Inamdar	...	Crawford Market Shopkeeper
Irrfan Khan	...	Letter writer
Neil Gettinger	...	Uncle Sam
Yunus Parvez	...	Hashimbhai
Habib Azmi	...	Ganga smoker
Ramesh Goyal	...	Customer at Rekha's House (as Ramesh Gohil)
Sanjana Kapoor	...	Western Journalist (as Sanjna Kapoor)
Biswadeep Chatterjee	...	Hippie Guide
Ameer	...	Ravi (as Ameer Bhai)
Ajju Kasam	...	Angry Man in Movie Theatre
Double Battery Stafford	...	Woman at the cinema
Rana Singh	...	Old man at the cinema
Ali	...	Butcher at Crawford Market (as Ali Bhai)
Dinshaw Daji	...	Parsi Bawaji
Jayant Joshi	...	Tailor
Prashant Jaiswal	...	Wedding Singer
Joyce Barneto	...	Bride
Hassan Kutty	...	Spouse
Preshit Shringarpure	...	Fat kin at Wedding
B.D. Sharma	...	Cop
Mohammed Ali	...	Handcuffed man in van
Dilip Das	...	Chiller Room Song Leader
Alfred Anthony	...	Lalua Chor
Ramesh Deshavani	...	Murtaza
Anjan Srivastav	...	Superintendent (as Anjan Srivastava)
Eric Paymaster	...	Superintendent's Echo
Sulabha Deshpande	...	Social Worker at Juvenile Centre (as Sulbha Deshpande)
Mohan Tantaru	...	Chillum II
Sheikh Haroon	...	Solasaal's first costumer

Directed by
Mira Nair

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mira Nair		story
Sooni Taraporevala		screenplay
Sooni Taraporevala		story

Produced by
Gabriel Auer	....	executive producer: France
Jane Balfour	....	associate producer
Mitch Epstein	....	co-producer
Mira Nair	....	producer
Michael Nozik	....	executive producer: US
Cherie Rodgers	....	co-executive producer
Anil Tejani	....	executive producer: India

Original Music by
L. Subramaniam

Cinematography by
Sandi Sissel

Film Editing by
Barry Alexander Brown

Casting by
Hassan Kutty

Production Design by
Mitch Epstein

Art Direction by
Nitin Chandrakant Desai		(as Nitin Desai)
Nitish Roy

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hassan Kutty	....	first assistant director
Dinaz Stafford	....	first assistant director
Nilita Vachani	....	second assistant director

Sound Department
Rosemary Abitabile	....	apprentice sound editor
Margaret Crimmins	....	supervising sound editor
Dominique Dalmasso	....	sound re-recording mixer
Neal Gettinger	....	boom operator (as Neil Gettinger)
Jonathan Liebling	....	foley artist
Mary Ellen Porto	....	sound editor
Laure Sullivan	....	assistant sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Imtiaz Ansari	....	electrician
Mulchand Dedhia	....	gaffer
Mitch Epstein	....	second unit photography
Vangelis Kalambakas	....	dolly grip
Hiroo Keswani	....	second assistant camera
Lee Anthony Macnamara	....	first assistant camera
Kamlesh Sadrani	....	generator operator
Sooni Taraporevala	....	still photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Deepa Kakkar	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Tula Goenka	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Emil Richards	....	musician: percussion
L. Subramaniam	....	conductor
L. Subramaniam	....	music arranger
L. Subramaniam	....	musician: violin
Ernie Watts	....	musician: horns
Jerry Watts Jr.	....	musician: bass

Other crew
Joyce Barneto	....	production coordinator: Bombay
Gloria Bremer	....	production coordinator: New York
Gisèle Grellet-Bouquet	....	production accountant
Ambrish Manilal	....	production accountant
Nilita Vachani	....	script supervisor

Thanks
Jehangir Choudhary	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Cadragee
• Channel Four Films
• Doordarshan
• Forum Films (co-production)
• La Sept Cinéma
• Mirabai Films
• National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)

Distributors

• Cinecom Pictures (1988) (USA) (theatrical)
• Filmax Home Video (2006) (Spain) (DVD)
• Manuel Salvador
• Transmundo Films (Argentina)
• Transmundo Home Video (THV) (Argentina) (video)
• Universum Film (UFA) (2005) (Germany) (DVD) (Special Edition)

Also Known As:

Salaam Bombay! (France)

Runtime:

113 min | UK:109 min | Argentina:112 min

Country:

UK | India | France

Language:

Hindi | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Australia:M | Iceland:L | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Sweden:11 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Cadragee

Trivia:

Most of the young actors who appeared in the film were actual street children. They received dramatic training at a special workshop in Bombay before they appeared in the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: Krishna starts off with eight glasses of tea. One glass is broken by Sweet Sixteen when he offers her a drink. He is then seen walking back to the tea stand with eight full glasses, but when he gets back he has seven empty glasses.

Quotes:

Rekha Golub: [To Baba] Just like a customer.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Scenes from a Mall (1991)

one of the best about India - from India...watch it.

i have been late in watching it, but after watching it u feel that you can never be late in watching such a movie. The movie is excellent. Perhaps Mira Nair's best. I was particularly moved by the story and the picturization. you see the striking poverty and its madness, but Mira has been brilliant to show life in it. a lost boy in a big city with a dream to get back home, keeps himself in control, while everything around him is so much polluted with drugs, and prostitution. Poverty is never neat, in the movie also it is validly not shown as such. But the innocence and strength of children, and them growing up in such conditions, makes them more enduring than adults. to say the least the movie is all about life. it is there to show that no matter how hard it is, life exists in slums, in poverty, and people are living it. the movie is a collectors item. one of the best about India - from India...watch it. Salaam Bombay.