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Salaam Bombay!
FRANCE · 1988

Salaam Bombay!

Mira Nair
street children poverty urban survival redemption homesickness
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Synopsis

Young Krishna is abandoned at the Apollo Circus by his mother, who informs him that he can only return home when he can afford ₹500 for his brother's bicycle that he destroyed. The circus leaves Krishna behind and he travels to Bombay, where he delivers tee and befriends a heroin addict and a young prostitute. Krishna dreams of saving ₹500 to return home, but Bombay street life isn't easy.

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