Salaam Bombay!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Salaam Bombay! |
| Original title | Salaam Bombay! |
| Country of production |
India UK France |
| original language |
Hindi English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mira Nair |
| script |
Mira Nair Sooni Taraporevala |
| production |
Mira Nair Gabriel Auer |
| music | L. Subramaniam |
| camera | Sandi Sissel |
| cut | Barry Alexander Brown |
| occupation | |
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Salaam Bombay! ( Hindi सलाम बॉम्बे! ) Is an award-winning film depicting the everyday lives of children who live on the streets of Bombay (now: Mumbai) (Premiere: September 13, 1988, Toronto International Film Festival ).
The film was shot in Mumbai and Maharashtra . Directed by Mira Nair , who wrote the screenplay with Sooni Taraporevala , with whom she has a long creative collaboration. The film won the National Film Award for best film in Hindi, the National Board of Review Award for best foreign film, the Caméra d'Or , the Cannes Film Festival Audience Award and three prizes at the World Film Festival in Montreal . The film was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film and was included in the New York Times list of the best 1,000 movies of all time ( "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" ) .
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Krishna sets fire to his older brother's motorcycle because he has had enough of his constant harassment. That gets him in a lot of trouble with his mother. She takes him to the nearby Apollo Circus and tells him that he won't be allowed to come home until he has earned 500 rupees to pay for the damage to the motorcycle. Krishna agrees and finds work at the circus .
One day his boss asks him to run an errand. But when Krishna comes back, the circus has left. Now he is completely on his own. He has nowhere to go and no longer has the ability to earn enough money to come back home. Finally he decides to go to the next big city - to Mumbai (Bombay).
Upon arrival, Krishna is stripped of his meager belongings. He follows the thieves and makes friends with them. So he arrives in Mumbai's red light district Kamathipura along Falkland Road near Grant Road Railway Station. One of the thieves, Chillum, a drug addict, helps Krishna get a job at the Grant Road Tea Stall . Krishna gets a new name, "Chaipau", to which he quickly gets used. He wants to scrape together enough money to be able to go back to his mother. However, he soon finds out that it is almost impossible to save money in such an area and with the people around him. To make matters worse, he also falls in love with the young prostitute Sola Saal. He sets her room on fire and tries to escape with her, but both are caught. This gives Krishna a beating and he loses his job.
From now on he gets by with odd jobs so that he can afford something to eat and to take care of Chillum, who cannot live without drugs. In order to get more money, they both rob an elderly parse by breaking into his house in broad daylight. One night while walking home from a job at a wedding party, Krishna and a little friend are caught by the police and taken to different youth homes. Eventually Krishna escapes from there and goes back to his world full of drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes. In affect, he stabs a drug dealer to death, but the film leaves his further fate open.
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Awards
- 1988: Cannes Film Festival : Audience Award and Caméra d'Or
- 1988: National Film Award for Best Film in Hindi
- 1988: National Film Award for Best Child Actor : Shafiq Syed
- 1988: National Board of Review Awards : Best Foreign Film
- 1988: Lillian Gish Award : "Excellence in Feature Film", Los Angeles Women in Film Festival (together with Elysium )
- 1988: Jury Prize at the World Film Festival (Montreal) together with The Dawning
- 1988: Most Popular Film at the World Film Festival
- 1988: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the World Film Festival
Nominations
- 1989: Oscar for best foreign language film
- 1990: British Academy Film Award for Best Non-English Language Film
- 1989: César for the best foreign film
- 1990: Filmfare Award for best director
- 1989: Golden Globe Award for the best foreign language film
production
Most of the young actors in Salaam Bombay! were actually street kids. They received acting training in an extra workshop in Mumbai before going in front of the camera. In 1989, director Mira Nair founded the Salaam Baalak Trust organization to reintegrate the children who appear in the film. Most of them could eventually be helped. The Salaam Baalak Trust still exists and supports relief efforts for street children in Mumbai / Bombay, Delhi and Bhubaneshwar . Shafiq Syed, who plays the role of Krishna in the film, has three children and later earned his living as an auto rickshaw driver in Bangalore .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salaam Bombay! on www.imdb.de
- ^ The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made . New York Times . Retrieved September 21, 2011.
- ↑ Awards Internet Movie Database (English).
- ↑ More information about the Salaam Baalak Trust ( Memento of the original dated March 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on GiveWorld.org (English)
- ↑ Article about Shafiq Syed in The Times of India (English)
