| Salaam Bombay! | |
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| Directed by | Mira Nair |
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| Screenplay by | Sooni Taraporevala |
| Story by | Mira Nair |
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| Cinematography | Sandi Sissel |
| Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown |
| Music by | L. Subramaniam |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | $450,000[3] |
| Box office | est. $7.5 million (overseas) |
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai), India's largest city. It stars Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Hansa Vithal and Chanda Sharma.
Nair's inspiration for the film came from the spirit of Bombay's street children and how they lived. Production began in early 1988, and the film was co-financed by the National Film Development Corporation of India. After being released worldwide on 6 October 1988, the film grossed an estimated $7.4 million at the overseas box office, against a production budget of only $450,000.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 61st Academy Awards, the film was India's second film submission to be so nominated. After its initial release on 11 May 1988 at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Salaam Bombay! achieved significant critical acclaim. It won the Caméra d'Or and Audience award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three awards at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film was on the list of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" by The New York Times.[4]
- ^ a b c d e f Arunachalam 2020, pp. 1063.
- ^ a b Foster 1997, pp. 119.
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