The re-release of Mira Nair’s unflinching 1988 story of street children, prostitutes and drug dealers shows it has lost none of its power
Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! from 1988 was developed through journalistic research into the street children of Mumbai with her screenwriting partner Sooni Taraporevala; now it is re-released and what strikes you is not simply its energy and vitality and its Dickensian storytelling appetite, but its fierce unsentimentality. This is a movie that withholds the resolution for which the audience might find itself longing, showing only how street children cannot imagine their own future as street adults, seeing only imprisonment or death. I found myself contrasting Garth Davis’s recent film Lion from 2017, about the true story of a street kid who fell asleep on a train and finds himself transported thousands of miles away to Kolkata without any means of getting back or explaining to the uncaring officialdom what has happened.
Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! from 1988 was developed through journalistic research into the street children of Mumbai with her screenwriting partner Sooni Taraporevala; now it is re-released and what strikes you is not simply its energy and vitality and its Dickensian storytelling appetite, but its fierce unsentimentality. This is a movie that withholds the resolution for which the audience might find itself longing, showing only how street children cannot imagine their own future as street adults, seeing only imprisonment or death. I found myself contrasting Garth Davis’s recent film Lion from 2017, about the true story of a street kid who fell asleep on a train and finds himself transported thousands of miles away to Kolkata without any means of getting back or explaining to the uncaring officialdom what has happened.
- 6/17/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
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This diversity is already visible in the choice...
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
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This diversity is already visible in the choice...
- 10/28/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Still from Salaam Bombay!
On 25 years of Salaam Bombay! PVR Director’s Rare will release the digitally re-mastered version of the film on big screen from March 22 – 28, 2013. The film will release in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon.
Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s feature debut trails Krishna in his endeavor to collect Rs. 500 by working in the streets of Mumbai. Here he meets Manju, her prostitute mother Rekha, the pimp Baba and a heroin addict Chillum. The film features Nana Patekar, Raghuvir Yadav, Shafiq Syed and Anita Kanwar in lead roles.
Besides winning Audience Award and the Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and two National Film Awards in 1989, the film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1989 Academy Awards.
PVR Director’s Rare will also release Sai Paranjpye’s 1981 cult classic Chashme Buddoor on April 5. The film stars Farookh Shaikh, Rakesh Bedi, Ravi Baswan and Deepti Naval.
On 25 years of Salaam Bombay! PVR Director’s Rare will release the digitally re-mastered version of the film on big screen from March 22 – 28, 2013. The film will release in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon.
Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s feature debut trails Krishna in his endeavor to collect Rs. 500 by working in the streets of Mumbai. Here he meets Manju, her prostitute mother Rekha, the pimp Baba and a heroin addict Chillum. The film features Nana Patekar, Raghuvir Yadav, Shafiq Syed and Anita Kanwar in lead roles.
Besides winning Audience Award and the Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and two National Film Awards in 1989, the film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1989 Academy Awards.
PVR Director’s Rare will also release Sai Paranjpye’s 1981 cult classic Chashme Buddoor on April 5. The film stars Farookh Shaikh, Rakesh Bedi, Ravi Baswan and Deepti Naval.
- 3/1/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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