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...SALAAM BOMBAY! An Indian Oliver Twist learns the ways of slum-life survival in Mira Nair's poignant documentary fable...
...film is an adventure too, a tightrope dance between sociology and sentiment. Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings...
...full of Hollywood hits (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man) -- earns some respect when, in his new film Madame Sousatzka, he considers the clash of Anglo and Indian cultures. And Mira Nair, born in India and educated at Harvard, is to be cheered when she brings American movie expertise to her Salaam Bombay! In each film a bright Indian boy comes of age and finds the struggle for independence and maturity as daunting as it was for his country. Both are films of good intentions, but there the resemblance ends. Madame Sousatzka is a cracked cameo, Salaam Bombay! a poignant, imposing fresco...
...Salaam Bombay!, ten-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) has no hope higher than survival. His mother has thrown him out, and he must earn 500 rupees in the churning Bombay slums. Is this a death sentence? No, it is a challenge for the resourceful Krishna. Does the film curtsy to liberal pieties? No, it sees the city as a school for life -- life as it is for millions of Asian children. His neighbors may be prostitutes and pushers, but they are neither fiends nor Artful Dodgers; they are individuals come to bracing anecdotal life. And Bombay may not be paradise...
...Cannes '88 presented a picture of world cinema as seen through a cynic's squint, three of the most acclaimed films gave a child's-eye view of the struggle for survival and identity. Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! traces the odyssey of a ten-year-old boy abandoned in India's fetid slums. This artful heartbreaker (which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature) is made with passion and tact -- an expose that also, eloquently, reveals...