A very intense and sombre film, we are treated to a sort of Oliver Twist world but without the sentimentality. Instead the characters and themes are very frank, a world of slums street children, prostitutes, thieves, drug addicts, pimps, beggars, workhouses, prisons all set within modern India. One character is particularly pathetic, a drug addict who is beyond hope. While there is lots of life and colour to this film it is not a flattering version of India and there really is no knight in shinning armour coming to save our protagonist. This is a hard film to sit through but I can see that it is an important film. I've not seen any other Indian films but this one was quite good I will say.
Review of Salaam Bombay!
