Back To Index Salaam Bombay!
 Barnes & Noble Director Mira Nairs landmark Salaam Bombay! takes a long, lean look at Bombays slums and the bonds and fantasies that can form there. With a gripping cast of child actors plucked from the streets, it is at once an expansive, humanist look at poverty and a latent swipe at the hopeful fantasy worlds of Bollywood cinema. The story follows a desperately impoverished 11-year-old (Shafiq Syed), whose family abandons him in the city. Clinging to the hope that he can make enough money to return to them, he snares a tenuous, hardscrabble job delivering tea to the lowest of workers. Eventually he finds himself part of an improvised, Dickensian family led by a pimp (Nana Patekar), his streetwalking wife, and the children from the grubby alley where he resides. Nair uses her experience as a documentary filmmaker to create an inexhaustible font of interest in the city itself, from rivers to movie houses to squalid underworld locations. Like Satyajit Rays Pather Panchali, Salaam Bombay! set a new standard in compassionate Indian filmmaking and won the best first feature award at the Cannes Film Festival. Eddy Crouse Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
|
|||||||
| �2006 CD-A-RAMA.com. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy • Contact Us |
||||||||
