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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1989 - 29 July.6 August

Sections & Films

SALAAM BOMBAY!

Category: Edition 1989

Synopsis
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.

Original Title Salaam Bombay!
Italian Title Salaam Bombay!
Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film, Special Event
Duration 113'
Production Year 1988
Nationality France, India, United Kingdom
Directed by Mira Nair
Screenplay Sooni Taraporevala, Hriday Lani
Main cast Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma

 regista mira nairMIRA NAIR

Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988; it won the Camera D'Or (for best first feature) and the Prix du Publique (for most popular entry) at the Cannes Film Festival and 25 other international awards. Her next film, Mississippi Masala, an interracial love story set in the American South and Uganda, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival including Best Screenplay and The Audience Choice Award.