Salaam Bombay! Page #4

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Mira Nair
Actors: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav
Production: Mainline Pictures Ltd
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
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Year:
1988
113 min
1,017 Views

No Iuck!

Look over there.

Hurry! Come on.

-You smart-ass!

-It's mine.

Who are you?

ChiIIum.

Where are the others?

On trash rounds.

You work for Baba?

-Yes.

-SeII his drugs?

-Smoke, too?

-Mind your own business.

I'm going home.

WiII you come with me?

This way, pIease.

Just Iook at her! Stand up, dear.

Turn around, dear.

Isn't she a pure bud?

I've kept her safeIy, especiaIIy

foryou.

BeautifuI!

Come, my dear.

Where are you going?

Are you Ieaving home?

-Without Manju there is no home.

-But I'm here.

You said this wasn't a good

pIace for Manju.

I'II bring her back.

Promise. Baba's promise.

I know your promise.

Go to Sweet Sixteen.

That was work. Nothing eIse.

Must I refuse work?

Drop it.

If you say drop it, I'II drop it.

Now I'm yours, fuII-time.

Tired of work? It happens,

I understand.

Let's go out. Where shaII we go?

Where wiII you Iive?

You'II be chewed up by Bombay.

Move!

What haven't I done foryou? You'II

Ieave a proper home?

Turning hoIy, whore?

Want to wash away your sins?

Want to become Mother India?

Look, I don't want troubIe. Get

out of my way, or eIse.

Or eIse what? WiII you kiII me?

Finish me off, my angeI.

KiII me! Go on!

Finish me off, kiII me!

DEDICATED TO THE CHILDREN ON

THE STREETS OF BOMBAY

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Sooni Taraporevala

Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer and filmmaker who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.She directed her first feature film, based on a screenplay of her own, an ensemble piece set in Bombay, in Spring, 2007, entitled Little Zizou. This film explores issues facing the Parsi community to which she belongs. She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. more…

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