A kaleidoscopic portrait of Bombay’s teeming street life, Mira Nair’s first narrative feature, Salaam Bombay!, combines a documentary-like sense of place with a poignant exploration of everyday resilience. After the young Krishna (Shafiq Syed) is cast out by his family, he makes his way to the city, where he encounters love, friendship, and tragedy in the face of extreme poverty. Drawing compellingly naturalistic performances from a cast consisting largely of children she met on the streets, Nair creates an intimate human drama that is by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming, an ode to childhood that overflows with colorful urban chaos and a deep compassion for those who live on society’s margins.
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Mira Nair, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentaries featuring Nair and director of photography Sandi Sissel
New conversation between Nair and composer L. Subramaniam
Archival interviews with screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala and actors Aneeta Kanwar, Bernard Sissel, Shafiq Syed, and Hansa Vithal
Program about the Salaam Baalak Trust and its mission to support the street children of Mumbai
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish
FILM INFO
India
1988
114 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Hindi
1292 Salaam Bombay!
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Re: 1292 Salaam Bombay!
Release of the year for me. Please give me more Hindi language films.