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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Mani Ratnam (screenplay)
Mani Ratnam (story)
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Release Date:
25 July 1998 (Japan) more
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A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where the have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart. full summary | add synopsis
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3 wins more
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Great love story with meaningful ending. more (20 total)

Cast

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Arvind Swamy ... Shekhar Mishra Narayan
Manisha Koirala ... Shaila Bano
Tinnu Anand ... Shakti Samaj Leader
Akash Khurana
Nasser (as Nazar)
Kitty
Master Harsha
Master Hriday
Sonali Bendre
Nagendra Prasad (as S. Nagendra Prasad)
Ratnakar
Prakash Rai
M.V. Vasudeva Rao (as Vasudeva Rao)
Rallapalli (as Raallapalli)
Deesh Mariwala
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bombay (India: English title)
Bombayi (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)
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Runtime:
141 min | Israel:130 min | USA:130 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Based on true events occurring in December 1992-January 1993. more
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Featured in Larger Than Life (2003) more
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Kannalanae more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Great love story with meaningful ending., 6 July 2005
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Author: Thomas Diemer (itd01@hotmail.com) from Metairie, La

This story of love and marriage between a Hindu man and Mospem woman was very well done. Even though I could not get the English subtitles to work on my DVD player, I was able to follow the plot with a little help from the package notes.

The portrayal of the Hindu/Moslem religious riots of 1992/3 was very well done. It was an excellent portrayal of the violence, horror, bloodshed and suffering in so many such acts of violence in too many time periods, for too many reasons, and between too many groups of people. The thing uppermost in my mind was how Christian fundamentalists could want to import such horrors and such suffering to the United States - but I guess Christian fundamentalists do not watch movies like this.

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