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Best movie of this year hands down!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Why are such unrealistic and terrible films rated so highly?I am quite sick of the West's obsession with Indian related movies. Are your lives so bland and unhappy that you look to a poor small part of a country to make yourselves feel better? I was born and raised in India and can attest that while terrible things do happen in the OUTSKIRTS of Bombay it is not the reality for many. Bombay is a vibrant and upbeat city that has a lot to offer. There are a many great stories to be told. But this biased and prejudiced public is not interested in that, in the real lives of many in Bombay. People go in search of poor developments and slums in remote parts. Delusional, misrepresented piece of garbage. The western audiences need to stop praising fraudulent films like this to escape the mundane and sad realities of their own lives. It is a sad state of affairs to look to falsehoods in film to feel better for oneself.

The debut feature by Indian filmmaker Mira Nair is a near-seamless blend of social documentary and coming-of-age dramatics, with the uncompromising honesty of the former combined to all the creative emotion of the latter. In this case the end of innocence doesn't present an easy rite of passage for Nair's young protagonist: a resourceful, homeless adolescent forced to grow old before his time in the mean streets and back alleys of modern Bombay. Every scene was shot on location, and the children in the film are actual homeless kids, all of them coached into remarkably natural performances alongside the few professional actors. The result is an unsentimental look at the bitter cycle of poverty and crime in a city where life is given a rare vitality by its dubious worth. Within the community of thieves, junkies, prostitutes, and pimps is a measure of compassion equal to their misery, and Nair is able to convey the stubborn spark of hope clinging to even the most tragic victims of circumstance. Expect an honest ending, not a happy one.

Salaam Bombay! was only the second Indian film to be nominated for an Oscar. The story is about an 11-year old country boy's adventures among thieves, prostitutes and drug addicts in a large city.The film is a dazzling feature debut for director Mira Nair, who immediately joined the ranks of world-class film-makers with this affecting, documentary-style dissection of a teeming, often dangerous city. A brilliant study of street life, acted by a cast of mainly homeless children, it is moving and harrowing, and has genuine poignancy. Salaam Bombay! was the film showing in the theatre during the film Scenes From A Mall, starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler.

movie described the dark side of Indian urban society.A child have to work on roadside tea stall. he wanted to skip from all circumstances around him. Including try to save his drug addicted friend and save a girl from being prostitute . but can't even give himself a good life. Story starts with red light area and slum of mumbai and ends with it. this movie force to think us can we live like this ,can't we do something for those slum children who just started their life. director unleashed the other side of Bombay life, not even a single shot of rich Mumbai. finest directed movie ever I seen. this movie is better than "Slumdog millionaire".