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Ranked #24 of 100
Salaam Bombay!
सलाम बॉम्बे! · 1988
A boy is abandoned in the city and joins the tea-runners, addicts and sex workers of Grant Road. Cast largely from the street.
- Director
- Mira Nair
- Year
- 1988
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Shafiq Syed, Nana Patekar, Irrfan Khan
Why it's at number 24
Caméra d'Or at Cannes and an Oscar nomination. Nair filmed children as people, not symbols.
A boy is abandoned in the city and joins the tea-runners, addicts and sex workers of Grant Road. Cast largely from the street.
Salaam Bombay! sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mira Nair — also responsible for Monsoon Wedding.
- Released in 1988, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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