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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Siddharth Anand (screenplay)
Abbas Tyrewala (dialogue)
Release Date:
9 September 2005 (India) more
Tagline:
Let's get to know each other
Plot:
Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how they meet and how they tackle their own relationships and problems and overcome them themselves without their families. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 7 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(17 articles)
Actress Preity Zinta heads to Harvard Business School
(From The Bollywood Ticket. 12 November 2009, 1:48 PM, PST)
Chal Chaliye's Peck with the Indian Censor Board
(From Bollyspice. 28 August 2009, 3:29 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Couldn't you just bet on Bollywood to ruin their own version of ESOTSM?! more (56 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Saif Ali Khan | ... | Nikhil "Nicki" Arora | |
| Preity Zinta | ... | Ambar "Ambi" Malhotra | |
| Arshad Warsi | ... | Ranjan "Ron" Mathur | |
| Tania Zaetta | ... | Cathy R. Mathur | |
| Bidyut Dumra | ... | Chef | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Siddharth Anand | (as Siddharth Raj Anand) | ||
| Damian Andrews | |||
| Siddhant Ashar | |||
| Danish Aslam | |||
| Darshan Aulahk | (as Darshan Aulakh) | ||
| Abhishek Bachchan | ... | Doctor | |
| Nikita Bhatt | |||
| Padam Bhushan | ... | Chef | |
| Eknath Chalke | |||
| Suhail Farooqi | (as Suhail Faruqui) | ||
| Maria Goretti | ... | Cameo Appearance | |
| Jugal Hansraj | ... | Jignesh Pandya | |
| Bonnie Hill | |||
| Yunus Hussain | |||
| Javed Jaffrey | ... | Jaggu (as Javed Jafferi) | |
| Jezebel | |||
| Kavita Kapoor | |||
| Azaan Ali Khan | |||
| Ravi Khote | |||
| Rishi Oberoi | |||
| Leima Popal | |||
| Nicola Preece | ... | Jenny | |
| Akshai Puri | |||
| Prakash Sawant | |||
| Ismail Shaikh | |||
| Deepak Shroff | |||
| Kunal Vijaykar | |||
| Zeke Zidaan | |||
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Runtime:
158 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:PG | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | India:UA
Filming Locations:
Aamandi bungalow, Madh Island, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India more
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When Preity Zinta is doing her radio show (in the beginning), there is a white board behind her listing programme timings, names and guests. The guest for the 2:00 show is listed as "Sid Anand". This is a reference to the director, 'Siddharth Raj Anand'. more
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Crew or equipment visible: When Arshad Warsi and Tania Zaetta get married and run into their wedding car, the reflection of the crane above is visible in the car's windscreen. more
Movie Connections:
References Crocodile Dundee (1986) more
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Okay guys don't go losing your minds because I just compared this cute piece of crap to one of the best Hollywood films of 2004! The only resemblance that Salaam Namaste shares with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is that it shows us a side of relationships that we don't usually see in films. And that's where the similarities end. That's the only way it gained 5 stars from me. I liked the way it addressed relationships especially in the 21st century. Somebody needs to send Preity Zinta a memo for her to stop accepting roles in which she portrays desperate women who have to con men to love them! I mean come on! A man doesn't need to have a degree in Neuro-surgery before he realises that he is in love, and Preity, pretty please, stop playing these tired stereotypes of women willing to try and give those men their love degrees! That said, Salaam Namaste is a good looking film about good looking people, living in a good looking country, have good looking jobs and good looking lives, until they meet and fall in love with each other. Then everything is not so good looking any more! Babes, why wasn't Salaam Namaste something original again? Sorry? Exaaaactly! :-D It was mediocre yaar! The out-takes were funnier and more entertaining than the movie!