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Is Salaam Bombay! OK for kids?

Salaam Bombay!Hindi1988· 5 of 7 categories documented

Filmi puts it at 15+, and the BBFC certified it 15. 5 of 7 categories documented.

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Content flags

We haven’t watched the film. Every flag comes from a documentary source — the board’s record, the BBFC’s notes, or a reviewer’s on-record warning. A blank means nobody documented it — not that it’s clean.
Violence & gore
Not documented
Language
Sex & nudity
Substances
Frightening / intense
Positive messages
Some
Role models
Not documented
Read from 1 review.

The record, item by item

Every piece of evidence behind the flags, quoted, with its source.
Substances · moderate · Reviewer on record
“Drugs (referred to as dard here)... are casual elements that lead to income and relief.” view the record →
Sex & nudity · moderate · Reviewer on record
“Sola Saala or the new girl readying for a life in flesh trade” view the record →
Language · mild · Reviewer on record
“crudity (Their version of Aradhana's Mere sapno ki rani is quite different)” view the record →
Frightening / intense · moderate · Reviewer on record
“he cries inconsolably over the inevitable loss of innocence” view the record →
Substances · moderate · Reviewer on record
“Drugs (referred to as dard here) … are casual elements that lead to income” view the record →
Sex & nudity · moderate · Reviewer on record
“the infamous red light area of South Mumbai … prostitutes and pimps” view the record →
Language · mild · Reviewer on record
“crudity … are casual elements that lead to income and relief” view the record →
Frightening / intense · moderate · Reviewer on record
“cries inconsolably over the inevitable loss of innocence” view the record →
Positive messages · some · Reviewer on record
“heart is filled with hope and innocence” view the record →

Parents ask

Answered from the record below — the certificate, the board’s cut list, and what reviewers documented.
Is Salaam Bombay! OK for kids?

Filmi puts Salaam Bombay! at 15+ — suitable for 15 and over. The BBFC certified it 15. That comes from the certificate and from what reviewers documented, not from anyone at Filmi watching the film — every claim on this page is quoted with its source.

What age is Salaam Bombay! suitable for?

15+, based on the BBFC rating of 15. 4 of the five content-warning categories are documented for this film.

What content should parents know about in Salaam Bombay!?

Documented so far: language — mild, sex or nudity — moderate, drink or drugs — moderate, frightening scenes — moderate. A category left blank means nobody documented it, not that the film is clean — the full record, quoted with sources, is on this page.

Did the censor board cut anything from Salaam Bombay!?

The BBFC certified it 15 with no published cut list. That is not the same as the film being uncut — only that no modification was published.

Seen it with your kids?

What age would you say?

You have watched it, they have not. What is the youngest age you would sit next to? The board puts it at 15+; your pick joins a parents’ number that sits beside it and never replaces it.
15+and up
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Posting as
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Minimum age
15+
BBFC: 15 Source: BBFC
Certificate · BBFC
15minimum age 15
source link pending
Parent note
A street-kid drama set in Mumbai's slums and red-light district; themes of poverty, drug use, prostitution and crude language run through daily survival, alongside a poignant, sometimes distressing look at lost childhood innocence.
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