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Salaam Bombay!

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:October 7, 1998
Running time:114 minutes
Cast:Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vitha, Raghuvir Yadav, Chanda Sharma, Anita Kanwar
Director:Mira Nair
Producer:Mira Nair
Writer:Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala
Distributor:Mainline Pictures Ltd

Description: Back from an errand for a seedy circus owner, urchin Krishna finds the troupe has picked up and disappeared, leaving him with barely enough money for a 3rd class ticket to Bombay. From here on, Krishna becomes a chaipau, constantly on the run delivering tea in one of the city's red light districts; sleeping in a garbage-strewn alley with world-wise new friends; snatching moments of pleasure with pilfered sweets or at a Bollywood musical; and doing the bidding of a drug kingpin/pimp whose latest project is taming an abducted 16-year-old into prostitution.

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