Released on Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime on 21 June 2021.
Salaam Bombay! is the heartrending and impassioned debut fiction feature by director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) and her frequent collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. With a cast of real-life street children, this celebration of the spirit of survival is an authentic and unflinching portrayal of India’s impoverished underbelly.
Oscar-nominated and critically lauded, it comes to Blu-ray for the first time. Extras include an audio commentary by Mira Nair and a newly recorded discussion with the cinematographer and her son who was one of the children in the film.
Banished from his home and abandoned by the traveling circus he sought refuge in, 11-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) joins the swathes of dispossessed Mumbai street children struggling to survive. To earn the money he needs to get back into his mother's good graces and return home, Krishna finds work as a tea boy - a job that brings him into contact with an array of local characters, including prostitutes, pimps and drug-dealers.
Salaam Bombay! was the film in which the great Indian actor Irrfan Khan (1967–2020) made his debut screen appearance, in a small role, 'Scribe'. He went on to a film career spanning 30 years before his untimely death at just 53 and is known in the UK for his performances in films such as The Lunchbox, Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World. See a clip at the link above.
