{"product_id":"salaam-bombay-widescreen-special-edition-dvd-dvd","title":"Salaam Bombay (Widescreen Special Edition) [DVD] [DVD]","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this\u003cbr\u003e\n\"brilliantly achieved, stunning and powerful\" (Los Angeles Times) film \"burst\u003cbr\u003e\nonto the Indian cinema scene with the force of a tornado\" (Time Out London)!\u003cbr\u003e\nWinner of the Caméra d'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for a\u003cbr\u003e\nBest Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1989, this riveting look at life on the\u003cbr\u003e\nhardened streets of Bombay went on to accumulate accolades and awards across\u003cbr\u003e\nthe globe! Forced to leave his family at a very young age, Krishna lives on\u003cbr\u003e\nthe streets with pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and other homeless children.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe earns very little money  but it's more than most  delivering tea so he\u003cbr\u003e\ncan return home to his family. But his honest plan is foiled when his hard-\u003cbr\u003e\nearned money is stolen by his closest friend, forcing Krishna to follow in the\u003cbr\u003e\nfootsteps of so many street children of Bombay by turning to a life of crime.\u003cbr\u003e\n Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) adds her angry voice to the cinema of\u003cbr\u003e\nforgotten children in this wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real-life\u003cbr\u003e\nstreet kid Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless\u003cbr\u003e\nkids and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets. The\u003cbr\u003e\nfantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters, movies, and\u003cbr\u003e\nradio tunes, momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by\u003cbr\u003e\nbrutal pimps and drug dealers. In the tradition of Los Olvidados and Pixote,\u003cbr\u003e\nformer documentarian Nair's feature debut is shot entirely in the slums of\u003cbr\u003e\nBombay with a largely nonprofessional cast from the same streets. Though the\u003cbr\u003e\ndrama is at times misty and melodramatic, her clear-eyed look at the mercenary\u003cbr\u003e\nworld around these ultimately fragile forgotten children earned her the Caméra\u003cbr\u003e\nD'Or at Cannes in 1988. --Sean Axmaker","brand":"SYED,SHAFIQ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44644091396262,"sku":"FN-ZT9E-B4EP","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/mahaekart.com\/products\/salaam-bombay-widescreen-special-edition-dvd-dvd","provider":"Mahaekart LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}