Salaam Bombay!

Hindi24 Aug 19881h 53m15 · 15+Crime · Drama

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BBFC: 15 5 of 7 categories documented

A street-kid drama set in Mumbai's slums and red-light district; themes of poverty, drug use, prostitution and crude language run… Family Room →

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Sukanya Verma · 22 Mar 2013

Twenty-five years on, Verma finds Salaam Bombay still lands — not for cinematic polish but for the raw honesty of Nair's non-actor cast and her… Read it there →

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Synopsis

When a revengeful Krishna destroys his brother's motorbike, his mother asks him to return home only when he earns INR 500 to repair it. In a turn of events, he finds himself in a Bombay slum.

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