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Title: Salaam Bombay! (1988)
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| Shafiq Syed | ... | Krishna / Chaipau | |
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Hansa Vithal | ... | Manju Golub |
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Chanda Sharma | ... | Sola Saal |
| Raghuvir Yadav | ... | Chillum (as Raghubir Yadav) | |
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Anita Kanwar | ... | Rekha Golub (as Aneeta Kanwar) |
| Nana Patekar | ... | Baba Golub | |
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Anjaan | ... | Child at the circus |
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Amrit Patel | ... | Circus Boss |
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Murari Sharma | ... | Ticket Seller |
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Ram Murthy | ... | Mad Man (as Ram Moorti) |
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Sarfuddin Qureshi | ... | Koyla (as Sarfuddin Quarassi) |
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Raju Barnad | ... | Keera |
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Irshad Hashmi | ... | Chacha |
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Mohanraj Babu | ... | Salim |
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Chandrashekhar Naidu | ... | Chungal |
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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Having just returned from an extended trip to India I was keen to see a quality Indian film (not bollywood drival)and I have come across one of the most realistic and moving films I have ever seen. Having been involved in helping street kids in India I was pleased to come across this film which so accurately depicts life, love and death around a group of street boys in Bombay.
SALAAM BOMBAY is the story of a 12-year-old street boy surviving and etching out an existence on the squalled streets of Bombay. The interactions these kids have with each other made me feel I was watching a doco. The kids in India are so much like Chipau and the others depicted in Salaam Bombay its amazing. They all have there individual lives and dreams like us all but are burdened with extreame poverty.
The story lines in the film are about the prostitution business, drug addiction and homeless children. All these elements combine so as we see the people and lives behind them. These issues are rarely dealt with on such a personal and emotional level as we see in this film. This ain't Hollywood and it sure ain't Bollywood.
For me my favorite all time film. You may have difficulty in finding this film at your local video library but it truly is worth viewing.
Recently we showed this film to a group of street kids in Pune, India. They were amazed at its realism. All thought they were watching real people not actors,(These kids have grown up watching Bollywood films). This same group would have watched this film 5 times now. And all could identify with the characters.