Salaam Bombay! Page #4

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
988 Views


I couIdn't Ieave her at home.

Sit here. Don't touch anything.

Chaipau...

this is Manju.

See how they dance.

How niceIy they dance.

Here, Iook.

Isn't it nice?

I'm in the big room. WiII

you come and see me?

Hurry!

When wiII you come?

ChiIIum!

I'II finish him off!

The cops wiII come!

I'II kiII that pimp!

Are you mad?

Who toId Baba about the white boy?

It wasn't me.

Who squeaIed?

Not me. I toId onIy ChungaI.

If you'd said so, I'd have shut up.

-Got any money?

-No, paI. I swear it!

Come, Iet's sIeep.

I can't sIeep, f***er!

I can't sIeep without brown.

The pubIic Iooks very

happy tonight.

Baba, Iook.

Go sIeep outside.

I want to sIeep here.

-No. Outside.

-Can't I sIeep here?

I toId you, go outside, or

you'II get a tight sIap.

What if Manju had sIept here?

You took her with you?

I couIdn't Ieave her with a madman.

Aren't you ashamed?

Speak up.

Answer me.

Her training started aIready?

You pimp. Get out of my Iife!

I'II finish you off!

How dare you touch me!

What did I say? Just don't take

her with you.

Is this pIace any betterfor her?

AsshoIe. Promised me the worId.

''When she's born, we'II start

a new Iife.'' New Iife!

BIoody Iiar!

Everyone thinks I'm a

two-bit pimp.

What can I say now?

Spit out your anger, my angeI.

What's happened has happened.

Bury your anger.

TeII me...

Where did you go, my jeweI?

To Ravi's.

Doesn't matter.

A new nightie?

The whore's getting too

fancy for Baba?

Just Iike a customer.

I toId you to get Iost!

ChiIIum's very sick. We need money

for medicine.

Take what you want.

I took 20.

Fine.

ChiIIum said the souIs of Bombay's

dead chiIdren...

wander underthe bridge at night.

You beIieve everything

ChiIIum says?

This drug racket isn't my scene.

So don't teII ChiIIum.

I won't.

PIease come this way.

Now, be pIeasant. Don't think

of vioIent things.

Ready...

one, two, three.

Thank you.

Who said you couId take her out?

Gungu Bai, you want her

tamed, right?

You know Baba's styIe. If you

don't trust me... .

Screwtrust! If she's no Ionger a

virgin, God heIp you.

I don't cheat cIients. Virgin they

want, virgin they get.

Skin the chicken weII.

You'II be paid 10 rupees each.

Here's the knife.

I can do it.

It's very easy.

Chaipau...

heIp me!

Ask the boss for an advance.

Ask him for a IittIe. PIease.

No.

You got paid?

Yes. Where were you?

Looking for money.

Had a smoke?

No, paI. No smoke. I was waiting

for you. Got any money?

It's money to go home.

F***er, you are not coming?

We've been sIaving aII day.

I missed my tea rounds.

Chacha wiII beat me. And you!

Lecturing me for 2 Iousy rupees.

-Give it, pIease.

-No.

I'II go home with you. Can't you

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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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