what was the above movie about?
The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai), India's largest city, as well as organized crime scenes in India.
Salaam Bombay!
The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai), India's largest city, as well as organized crime scenes in India. 
who won a best director oscar for the 2012 film life of pi Ang Lee what is the movie about? The storyline revolves around an Indian man named "Pi" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. when was it released? September 28, 2012 where was the lead character from in the movie? Pondicherry who is the actor? Suraj Sharma,  Irrfan Khan where is khan from? Rajasthan where did he study? National School of Drama when did he start his acting career? Soon after his graduation from NSD in 1987, Khan made his debut with Mira Nair's "Salaam Bombay!" where he was offered a minor role.
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Salaam Bombay! [SEP] Introduction
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai), India's largest city, as well as organized crime scenes in India. It stars Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma in the lead roles. Nair's inspiration for the film came from the spirit of Bombay's street children and how they lived. Production began in early 1988, and the film was co-financed by the National Film Development Corporation of India.