Salaam Bombay! Page #2

Synopsis: The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but the life on the streets of Bombay is not easy.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Mira Nair
Production: Mainline Pictures Ltd
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
NOT RATED
Year:
1988
113 min
969 Views


with a cIient's bike.

I set it on fire.

Ma said I couIdn't stay

home anymore.

You sneaky bastard!

Then?

Ma took me to the circus...

and Ieft me there. She said:

''Don't come back untiI you have

500 for your brother.''

I said, ''Fine.

''In a month and 17 days, I'II save

500 and go back home.''

You stupid ass! You'II get

burnt someday.

Forget them aII!

Mothers, fathers, brothers,

sisters, friends...

Lovers, Sweet Sixteen... UseIess

bIoody Iot.

Me, too?

Aren't I yourfriend?

ChiIIum has no friends.

Mind your own business, or eIse...

Or eIse? The ChiIIer Room?

What's this ChiIIer Room?

Want to see it?

No probIem.

I'II hand you overto a cop.

He'II show you ChiIIer Room air.

You'd never do that to me.

You've shown me paradise.

How many times must I teII you?

When I'm working, get Iost!

Scratching the door Iike

an aIIey cat!

No, I wasn't.

Now, what's wrong with this fuse?

Ma, Chaipau doesn't pIay with me.

Nobody does.

He gave Sweet Sixteen the

baby chicken.

He didn't give it to me. No one

pIays with me.

My heart, my sweet baby.

No one pIays with you?

I'II pIay with you.

Want to hear a story?

Once upon a time, there

Iived a dog...

and a butterfIy. She'd fIy here,

she'd fIy there.

The bad dog wanted to eat her up.

-And the butterfIy?

-She'd fIy here and there.

She fIew away!

The Iights are back.

We had such fun in the dark.

We saw a butterfIy and a dog.

Manju, scram.

Rememberthe Iast time the

Iights went out?

Remember what we did?

My chiId sIeeping with riffraff.

Hey, Bumpkin. One tea here.

I'II pay.

Prince, they're getting your

virgin ready.

Where were you?

Can't come when you're sent for?

Getting smart, boy?

Your days are numbered.

Got your money.

Know Padmini in 103?

No. Why?

She died of an overdose.

ReaIIy? I didn't know.

You shouId know.

I see you seII on this street,

you're dead.

Scum, you know the ruIes,

don't you?

Me? SeII Baba's drugs on

Baba's street?

I don't do IocaI business.

I onIy seII to foreigners or to...

fooIs who say, as they die:

''Thank you, Baba.''

Back off. This is my Iast warning.

Okay, Boss.

Bastard!

And you? B*tch!

What's going on here?

They set fire to the house.

Bouncer caught them. This bastard

brought her matches.

We paid a fortune for

your virginity...

and you burn the house down?

You set the fire?

-She said what?

-She says she wants to die.

So die, you b*tch!

Want a poIice case?

I'II cut you up into IittIe pieces.

-Baba's here now.

-She's got some nerve.

If I catch you here again...

I'II wring your neck. Get out!

Want something to drink? Some

tea? Some water?

Don't worry.

Baba's here. It'II be aII right.

Nobody wiII dare say a word.

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Sooni Taraporevala

Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer and filmmaker who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.She directed her first feature film, based on a screenplay of her own, an ensemble piece set in Bombay, in Spring, 2007, entitled Little Zizou. This film explores issues facing the Parsi community to which she belongs. She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. more…

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