The Extended Canon
Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro
सलीम लंगड़े पे मत रो · 1989
A small-time Muslim tough in Bombay begins to see the ceiling his community has been placed under.
- Director
- Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- Year
- 1989
- Genre
- Drama · Crime
- Cast
- Pavan Malhotra, Makrand Deshpande, Neelima Azeem
Why it's in the canon
The most direct film about Indian Muslim marginalisation, made three years before the riots proved it.
A small-time Muslim tough in Bombay begins to see the ceiling his community has been placed under.
Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro 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 Saeed Akhtar Mirza — also responsible for Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai.
- Released in 1989, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Crime.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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