Salaam Bombay

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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  3ACEV
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DVD-R Details

  • Aspect Ratio - 16:9
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: October 14, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1988
  • Label: MGM

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring
Performer: , , , &
Directed by
Edited by
Screenplay by
Cinematography by
Story by &
Produced by

Major Awards:

Cannes 1988 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh93%

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Total Count: 29

Upright93%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,694
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. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Just as the visuals are unexpectedly delightful, so is the three- dimensional carving of the characters in what could be a cliche Third World hell. Full Review
Philadelphia Daily News
Sep 29, 2015
...Remarkably good....[Nair] is a new film maker to watch...
New York Times
Oct 7, 1988
Director Mira Nair, trained in America, is very much in control of her material, tells her story efficiently and has most of the cast, none of them real professionals, under total control. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
...Like any true film document, it carries hints and echoes of other cultures, other wrenching case histories, from Hong Kong to the South Bronx...
Film Comment
Aug 1, 1988
Rating: 3/5 -- Watching this picture feels more like a solemn duty than a form of entertainment or enrichment. And whether it is fantasy or reality, a movie should never be something you see as a duty. Full Review
Orlando Sentinel
Sep 29, 2015
Like Hector Babenco's Pixote the film is unsparingly gritty, but with a woman's tenderness it also grants the characters an occasional moment of grace. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Sep 29, 2015

Description by OLDIES.com:

Forced to leave his family at a very young age, Krishna lives on the streets with pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and other homeless children. He earns very little money -- but it's more than most -- delivering tea so he can return home to his family. But his honest plan is foiled when his hard-earned money is stolen by his closest friend, forcing Krishna to follow in the footsteps of so many street children of Bombay...by turning to a life of crime.

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 70,022
  • UPC: 883904304548
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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