Bombay (film)

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Movie
German title Bombay
Original title Bombay
Country of production India
original language Tamil
Publishing year 1995
length 141 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mani Ratnam
script Mani Ratnam
production Mani Ratnam
music AR Rahman
camera Rajiv Menon
cut Suresh Urs
occupation

Bombay is an Indian film drama by Mani Ratnam from the year 1995 .

action

The film tells the story of Shekhar and Shaila Bano. Both grow up in a small village in southern India. Both are lucky enough to be loved by their parents and therefore well educated. When the Hindu Shekhar falls in love with the Muslim Shaila Bano, the respective fathers cannot accept this, however, and a break occurs. Shekhar, who studies journalism in Bombay after school , turns his back on his parents - not without sending Shaila Bano a ticket to Bombay with his first self-earned money.

Shaila Bano accepts this offer from Shekar, whom she loves, and also leaves the village. When they arrive in Bombay, both marry immediately, the lack of understanding of the surroundings as to whether this Hindu-Muslim marriage does not affect both of them, they enjoy the honeymoon and the feelings towards each other.

Happiness becomes even more perfect when Shaila Bano becomes pregnant and gives birth to two sons, Kabir and Kamal. And while the sun is shining over the family, clouds are brewing in the sky, December 6, 1992 is just around the corner (more in the background).

On that December 6th, religious riots break out in Bombay, and the city that gave the two people who were driven out of the village a new home becomes a ruin, the reality of the differences that the people of a country tell themselves based on their beliefs. The parents of the two are concerned and come to Bombay, where after six years they finally accept the connection between their children across religious boundaries. In the unrest that now breaks out, many people die, including Shekhar and Shaila Bano's parents. Kabir and Kamal lose their parents in the chaos and the family only comes together again after a long time.

background

Bombay is part of director Mani Ratnam's political trilogy , which also includes the films Roja (1992) and Dil Se (1998). He makes explicit reference to the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 and the communal unrest between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay in 1993 . Ratnam played the roles of the fathers with the Hindu Kitty as the Muslim Bashir Ahmed and the Muslim Nazar as the Hindu Narayan.

In 1995 the film received the Political Film Society Award - special prize.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bombay . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 845 DVD).