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Salaam Bombay (Widescreen Special Edition) | 
| Director: Mira Nair
Actors: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Hindi (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1004335D
ISBN: 0792854950
UPC: 027616884176
EAN: 9780792854951
ASIN: B00007KQ9V
Theatrical Release Date: October 7, 1988
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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Product Description
The story of krishna manju chillum and the other children on the streets of bombay. Sometimes they can get a temporary job sellng tea but mostly they have to beg for money and keep out of the way of the police. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/24/2007 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) adds her angry voice to the cinema of forgotten children in this wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real-life street kid Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless kids and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets. The fantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters, movies, and radio tunes, momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by brutal pimps and drug dealers. In the tradition of Los Olvidados and Pixote, former documentarian Nair's feature debut is shot entirely in the slums of Bombay with a largely nonprofessional cast from the same streets. Though the drama is at times misty and melodramatic, her clear-eyed look at the mercenary world around these ultimately fragile forgotten children earned her the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1988. --Sean Axmaker
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
I've seen the movie 4 or 5 times. July 10, 2008
The Purple Bee (USA)
One of the best Indian movies and one of my top 25 movies.
Fine production.
Brilliant! May 9, 2008
THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY (Happy Place)
It is a tear jerker and a film everyone should watch at least once. A very powerful message. Walk away happy knowing the director adopted one of the homeless boys in real life and brought him up in the United States.
Definitely Not Bollywood April 15, 2008
C. Rocklein
In much of the movie, it doesn't seem like they're acting, which is to say the performances are VERY believable. Some points in the story, however, seemed less than believable. Krishna stealing food while he's serving guests at a wedding - putting them in his shirt and no one giving a second glance? The boss not noticing them in his T-shirt when giving him his pay?
Or what about the little girl being sent to the "prison" camp? Orphanage? I found it hard to believe that her mother couldn't get her back, even though she was a prostitute (on the other hand, wackier things HAVE gone down in India - for another riveting story which details more than a few, check out the book "A Fine Balance").
The scenes where Krishna and the little girl are doing all they can to help his junkie friend get his "medicine" - powerful. The ending seemed a bit drastic, though the final shots spoke volumes without saying a word. I'd give this movie 4.5 stars. Well-worth watching, especially if you've got a taste for gritty street movies. It doesn't get much grittier than Bombay. In fact this is a beautiful movie in spite of its dark theme.
Definitely a classic April 12, 2008
Michael LaRocca (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've never seen such unflinching honesty from a film-maker, or from an artist in any medium, now that I think of it. Excellent use of humor as well -- everyone should use humor. Powerful characters, spot-on performances, moving stories. I immediately felt this was filmed entirely on location, and I was right. It also felt like cheap hand-held cameras were used to capture the reality without glossing over it, so you can see the color and the beauty but also the seedy underneath at the same time. Such seeming contradictions are India. In the hands of tihs filmmaker, Bombay becomes a character too. The credits said 52 locations in 52 days, I think, so I'm sticking to my impression of cheap hand-held cameras. The movie is simply perfect. My attempts to predict the plot failed, and yet the plot unfolded so naturally from the characters that it isn't "plotted" at all. This movie is simply perfect, and I'm keeping my DVD to watch again. You can't buy it from me, so don't even try.
Exceptional work of art! January 9, 2008
Lucille M. Iacovelli (Cape Cod, Massachusetts USA)
The music to Salaam Bombay spans the emotional spectrum from joyous to tragic, with every nuance between. This is the music that made Salaam Bombay one of, if not THE best film of the 20th century. It is timeless and magnificent.
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