Watch: Salaam Bombay! 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Young Krishna’s mother abandons him at the Apollo Circus and informs him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for his brother’s bicycle that he destroyed. The circus then leaves Krishna behind and he takes a train to Bombay, where he works delivering tee for Chacha’s street bar and being called “Chaipau” by the local street children. He befriends heroin addict and drug dealer Chillum, and young Manju Golub, the daughter of Baba Golub and prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams of saving 500 rupees to return home, but Bombay street life isn’t easy..
Plot: The daily lives of street children living in slums and back alleys in Bombay
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Haunting – more people should see it
This is one of the single most powerful films I’ve ever seen. Having been to India several times and knowing to an extent what it’s like for the poor kids that have to make it on the streets, it really gets to me. I know that it received quite a bit of critical acclaim when it came out, but I didn’t discover it until recently, and, judging from the number of votes that its gotten on this site, it doesn’t seem as though too many people have seen it. I hope more people do; these kids don’t have much of a voice in their own country, let alone the rest of the world, but movies like this give them one and it should be heard by everyone.
Probably my all-time international favorite!
This film has haunted me since I saw it in 1988. Mira Nair’s production is all-enveloping and makes you feel as though you live within what is for me a completely different lifestyle and place. The saturated colors of the sets alone would have stayed with me these 12 years, but I find that so has the plot, the movement of the camera, and the overall tenor of the work. Probably the only other film that has stayed with me in such detail and with such power is Wim Wenders’s _Wings of Desire_, a completely different kind of work. Both films are alike, though, in their ability to encompass the viewer and take her to another world that she will not soon forget.
Original Language hi
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 1 hr 49 min (109 min) (UK), 1 hr 52 min (112 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 2080046
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Mira Nair
Writer Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Hriday Lani
Actors Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel
Country India, United States, France, United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Prasad Labs, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm