Salaam Bombay!

7.3
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Run time: 113 min
  • Premiere: 1988. August 24.

After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.

Discover

Shafiq Syed

Krishna / Chaipau

Hansa Vithal

Manju Golub

Chanda Sharma

Sola Saal

Anita Kanwar

Rekha Golub

Nana Patekar

Baba Golub

Anjaan

Child at the Circus

Amrit Patel

Circus Boss

Irrfan Khan

Letter Writer

Sanjana Kapoor

Reporter

Murari Sharma

Ticket Seller

Ram Moorti

Madman

Kishan Thapa

Nepali Middleman

Jamila

Woman in Brothel

Ramesh Rai

Barber

Shaukat Inamdar

Crawford Market Shopkeeper

Neil Gettinger

American Big Dog

Yunus Parvez

Hashimbhai

Habib Azmi

Ganja Smoker at Gravy's

Ramesh Gohil

Customer at Rekha's House

Biswajeet Chatterjee

Hippie Guide

Ajju Kasam

Angry Man in Theatre

Double Battery Stafford

Woman in Theatre

Rana Singh

Sleazy Man in Theatre

Ali Bhai

Butcher at Crawford

Dinshaw Daji

Parsi Bawaji

Prashant Jaiswal

Coroner at Wedding

Hassan Kutty

Bridegroom

Preshit Shringarpure

Fat Kid at Wedding

Mohammed Ali

Handcuffed Man in Van

Dilip Das

Chiller Room Song Leader

Alfred Anthony

Lalua Chor

Aanjjan Srivastav

Superintendent

Eric Paymaster

Superintendent's Echo

Sulabha Deshpande

Hemlata Joshi

Mohan Tantaru

Chillum II

Haroon Sheikh

Solasaal's First Customer

Art

Mitch Epstein

Production Design

Nitish Roy

Art Direction

Radha Pal

Assistant Art Director

Murari Sharma

Assistant Art Director

Camera

Sandi Sissel

Director of Photography

Hiroo Keswani

Second Assistant Camera

Sooni Taraporevala

Still Photographer

Lee Anthony MacNamara

First Assistant Camera

Harsh Mehta

Assistant Camera

Mitch Epstein

Second Unit Director of Photography

Syed Layaque Ali

Third Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

Deepa Kakkar

Costume Design

Crew

Daniel Vaissaire

Post Production Supervisor

Ravie Sonie

Production Controller

Directing

Mira Nair

Director

Hassan Kutty

First Assistant Director

Dinaz Stafford

Second Assistant Director

Nilita Vachani

Second Assistant Director

Nilita Vachani

Script Supervisor

Editing

Mary Ellen Porto

Assistant Editor

Tula Goenka

Assistant Editor

Production

Mira Nair

Producer

Hassan Kutty

Casting

Michael Nozik

Executive Producer

Anil Tejani

Executive Producer

Vijay Gautam

Production Manager

Gabriel Auer

Executive Producer

Mitch Epstein

Co-Producer

Jane Balfour

Associate Producer

Cherie L. Rodgers

Co-Executive Producer

Harish Amin

Production Manager

Sound

L. Subramaniam

Original Music Composer

Neil Gettinger

Boom Operator

Jonathan Liebling

Foley Artist

Mary Ellen Porto

Sound Editor

L. Subramaniam

Conductor

Laure Sullivan

Assistant Sound Editor

Margaret Crimmins

Supervising Sound Editor

Rosemary Abitabile

Apprentice Sound Editor

Dominique Dalmasso

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Juan Rodriguez

Location Sound Mixer

Writing

Mira Nair

Story

Hriday Lani

Dialogue