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Plot:
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...( read more 
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MCT:October 7, 2007
This is a drama but documents well the strife and hopelessness of the street children in Bombay India. This movie was made nearly 20 yrs ago, however (and sadly) it's still an important film today as all these years later things have not changed much for the better. Check out the special features too to catch up on many of the performers as they are today. Many of the children featured in this movie were actual children living alone and on the streets in Bombay.
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MCT:October 5, 2007one of the classics ever done on such a plot. wonderful movie, excellent thought of Mira Nair. really appreciate.
i would count it among those few good Indian movies which has been neglacted due to glamour-free actors.
love the kid Krishna, he literally stunned me with such a performance even though he does not belong to cinema background he is a real life street kid.
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MCT:October 1, 2007
The Good:
- Powerful, depressing and thought-provoking story about much forgotten children of India. In fact children of most part of the world.
- Brilliance of Mira Nair direction made the story even more persuasive than it actually is.
- I love the short selection throughout the movie.
- Nana Patikar really looked a mature actor even in his debut
- Mira Nair really suffered the consequences of making this movie but I am really sure she did not regret a bit of it.
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MCT:June 10, 2007
I thought this was great. It's one of those films that grows on you and lingers in your thoughts long after you watch it. Heartbreaking and insightful drama about a young boy and his group of friends who are homeless and live on the streets of Bombay. Definetly worth checking out.
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MCT:March 30, 2007
Salaam Bombay! is a stark portrait of life on the streets for India's homeless children. This film is dedicated to these children and serves as a scathing indictment of India's neglect of them. I would guess that the Bombay Better Business Bureau, India Visitor's Bureau, and the Indian Departments of Human Services and Health and Social Welfare have not welcomed this film with open arms.
Salaam Bombay! is another one, flixsters, where you had better be in a pretty upbeat mood if you're going to watch. It is tragic, and Shafiq Syed's loss of whatever approximation of childhood he may have had, his move from innocence to dark experience, magnificently symbolized by his inability to play with the top after the stabbing scene, is devastating.
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MCT:March 26, 2007
The best Indian film I've ever seen. Not easy to watch in part though. While most Bollywood films avoid issue of poverty this film dives straight into the issue.
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MCT:October 12, 2006
I just caught this only a few days ago, wondering what the hell my boss was doing converting an old archived movie. From wondering I ended up sitting through the whole thing. Captivating, heart-warming, endearing, and terribly sad. PS: And the boss let me make a DVD copy of it for myself!
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