Salaam Bombay – Polimi International Film Festival

Directed by Mira Nair, with Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Nana Patekar.

INDIA, 1988 – running time 113 minutes
Original language with English subtitles – free event upon registration

The film won the Caméra d’Or (Golden Camera) for Best First Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

At the centre of the film is the story of a boy who comes to the metropolis of Bombay from a small province, hoping to earn the five hundred rupees promised to his mother. In Bombay, however, he comes up against a hellish reality made up of swindlers, thieves and prostitutes…
An extremely realistic film made by the only Indian filmmaker who is also well known in the US.

“Shot entirely on location with its child actors recruited from the streets, Salaam Bombay! enters into its subjects’ lives with rare authority and absolute compassion.” Rupert Smith, Time Out