Film Review

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Salaam Bombay!
Directed by Mira Nair
MGM Home Entertainment 1988 DVD/VHS Feature Film
Not Rated

This is a remarkable Indian film directed by Mira Nair depicting the plight of Krishna, a ten-year-old boy. After being thrown out by his family and abandoned by new friends in a traveling circus, this resourceful youth winds up in Bombay’s red-light district. Tutored by a drug addict and a prostitute, Krishna learns how to survive in the streets of the dirty and crowded city. Salaam Bombay! will take your breath away with its harrowing portrait of the deprivations endured by this hungry and homeless young boy who seems condemned by fate to a hopeless future.

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