Salaam Bombay!
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but the life on the streets of Bombay is not easy.
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Crime, Drama
1988
113 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Salaam Bombay!
- Duration : 113 min
- Languages : Hindi, English
- Writers : Hriday Lani (dialogue), Mira Nair (story), Sooni Taraporevala (screenplay), Sooni Taraporevala (story)
- Directors : Mira Nair min
- Imdb : 8 (6035 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4.1 (5638 votes)
- Actors : Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav
Movie Storyline
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but the life on the streets of Bombay is not easy.