Salaam Bombay!
An international critical favourite focusing on Krishna, a 10-year-old boy on his own who falls in with prostitutes, drug dealers, crooked cops and the indifferent bureaucracy that is India. Shafiq Syed plays the brave and unfortunate tea boy.
Year: 1988
Genre: Alice's 500 Greatest Films, Drama, Indian & Tibetan Cinema, Film Festivals 1989
Country: UK, India
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Shafiq Syed, Sarfuddin Quarrassi, Raju Barnad
Duration: 113 Minutes
Rating: R13 - Contains offensive language.
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