Review of Salaam Bombay! (1988) by Lanning : — 29 Mar 2007

Salaam Bombay! is a stark portrait of life on the streets for India's homeless children. This film is dedicated to these children and serves as a scathing indictment of India's neglect of them.

I would guess that the Bombay Better Business Bureau, India Visitor's Bureau, and the Indian Departments of Human Services and Health and Social Welfare have not welcomed this film with open arms.

Salaam Bombay! is another one, flixsters, where you had better be in a pretty upbeat mood if you're going to watch. It is tragic, and Shafiq Syed's loss of whatever approximation of childhood he may have had, his move from innocence to dark experience, magnificently symbolized by his inability to play with the top after the stabbing scene, is devastating.