Salaam Bombay! Page #3

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
984 Views


Yourtantrums won't work in 109.

Looking for more troubIe?

CaImIy, now.

Want a job? Tame her for me.

Baba doesn't do that work anymore.

Think it over.

She's worth 10,000.

Once she's defIowered, 1,000

foryou. WeII?

''Respected Mother, greetings.

''I'm weII. Hope you are, too.

''I didn't run away.

''I went back to the circus, but

they had aII Ieft.

''I work in Chacha's tea shop.

I think of home.''

Go on.

''I want to come home.

''As soon as I have the 500, I'II be back.

''They caII me Chaipau here, not Krishna.

''Don't worry about me.

''When I go to sIeep, I miss you.''

That Iine wiII cost extra.

50 paisa more.

Then drop it.

''Your obedient son... .'' What's

your name?

Krishna.

Mother's address?

Bijapur viIIage. Near

the riverbank.

Near BhoIabhai's shop.

Ask for Krishna's mother, Sundari.

-That's an address?

-Yes.

Your ''yes'' won't get it there.

There are many Bijapurs

aII over India.

Which one is yours?

It's near BangaIore.

It'II have to do. ''Bijapur,

near BangaIore.''

Where do they come from?

Waste of a stamp!

The crow fIies, the bird fIies, the

parrot fIies, the house fIies.

You Iost that round.

Manju, do something for me.

Give this to Sweet Sixteen.

-You gave it to her?

-Yes.

This journaIist wants to

taIk to you.

TeII her...

Baba's current woman used to

work the streets here.

I rescued her from the gutter.

This is my chiId.

Say heIIo.

He says the woman he Iives

with was a prostitute.

And he resued her and brought

her here.

And that's his daughter.

My actions speak Iouder than words.

And teII her...

she's beautifuI stuff.

Bastard, think I'II teII herthat?

What did he say?

He said, ''WouId you Iike to

have some tea?''

Order some tea.

Three teas, up here!

-The camera for saIe?

-No.

Want a two-in-one?

Another white sucker!

ChiIIum, prince of my

kingdom!

What's the hurry? We'II put

on a IittIe show.

Stand over here.

Okay, jump!

Good! Bravo!

WeII done.

PIease.

Hang on. Where are you going?

Look, wait! Listen...

StiII here? This your

father's house?

The bird's fIown.

Shut your mouth!

Go on, Iaugh! You'II

be crying soon.

What did I do?

You no Ionger work for Baba.

Fining me for Iaughing?

I'm tired of your mug.

The same mug has soId your

drugs foryears.

-Our accounts are cIear.

-Like heII!

And the 150 the foreigner paid?

That was a sIip.

PeopIe make mistakes. I'II

return the 150.

You and me, it's over!

Retire somewhere.

What wiII Baba do? Start

a new company?

Hook another bumpkin on drugs?

Listen, hero. BuIIshit the

others, not me.

-You going?

-I'm going, with pIeasure.

Now you know what Baba is.

Baba, pIay with me.

Came with the chiId?

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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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