:Salaam Bombay!

Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his elder brother's motorbike in retaliation for being bullied by him. His angry mother has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he has earned 500 rupees to pay for the damage. Krishna agrees and starts working for the circus.

The film begins as the circus is packing up to move on to its next site. His boss asks him to run an errand, but when Krishna returns, he finds that the circus has left. Alone, with nowhere to go and without the money to repay his mother, he travels to the nearest big city, Bombay. As soon as he arrives, he is robbed of his few possessions. He follows the thieves, befriends them, and ends up in the city's notorious red-light area of Falkland Road, near the Grant Road Railway Station.

One of the thieves, Chillum, a drug pusher and addict, helps Krishna get a job at the Grant Road Tea Stall and becomes a mentor of sorts to him. Baba, a local drug dealer, employs addicts like Chillum. Baba's wife, Rekha, is a prostitute, and they have a little daughter, Manju. Rekha is annoyed that she has to raise her daughter in such an environment. Baba had promised to start a new life elsewhere, but it is a promise that Baba cannot or will not fulfill.

Krishna gets a new name "Chaipau" and learns to live with it. His goal is still to raise the money he needs to return home, but he soon finds out that saving money in his new surroundings is next to impossible. To make matters worse, he has a crush on a teenage girl named "Sola Saal" (meaning "sixteen years"), who has been recently sold to the brothel. He sets fire to her room and attempts to escape with her, but they are caught. The fire causes Krishna to get a severe beating, while Sola Saal, who is considered valuable since she is still a virgin, denies starting the fire and tearfully tries to resist her enslavement. The madame of the house asks Baba to "tame her," which Baba agrees to do.

Meanwhile, Krishna, as well as working at the tea stall, works odd jobs to save some money and help Chillum, who cannot survive without drugs, especially after being sacked by Baba after a disastrous interview with a foreign journalist. Eventually, one of these odd jobs costs Krishna his job at the tea stall. To get more money, Krishna and his pals rob an elderly Parsi man by breaking into his house in broad daylight. Krishna eventually finds out that the money he had saved has been stolen by Chillum for drugs, which Chillum had overdosed on and died.

One night, while returning home from work with friends, Krishna and Manju are apprehended by the police and taken to a juvenile home. Krishna escapes and goes back to his world. He finds that a new recruit in Baba's drug business has taken Chillum's place and name. Krishna meets Sola Saal and tries to convince her to run away with him. She reveals that she is charmed by Baba and no longer interested in Krishna; she is driven away to service her first 'client'. Meanwhile, Rekha is told that the authorities will not release their daughter because the mother is a prostitute. An angry Rekha decides to leave Baba, but Baba beats her in retaliation. She is saved by the timely intervention of Krishna who, in a fit of rage, kills Baba and attempts to run away with her, but they become separated in a parade honoring Ganesh. The film ends with a slow zoom in on Krishna's dejected face.

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• Shafiq Syed as Krishna, nicknamed Chaipau
• Raghuvir Yadav as Chillum (credited as Raghubir Yadav)
• Hansa Vithal as Manju
• Anita Kanwar as Rekha
• Nana Patekar as Baba
• Chanda Sharma as Sola Saal, nicknamed Sweet Sixteen
• Irrfan Khan as Letter writer
• Sanjana Kapoor as Foreigner reporter

{{div col end}}

File:Kamathipura lane.jpg, Bombay]]

Nair records that the initial inspiration for the film came from the spirit of Bombay's street children. Her ideas developed when she researched the lives of the children with her creative partner Sooni Taraporevala. From the beginning, they decided that real street children would play in the film since the combination of childhood and knowledge in their faces would be hard to find among professional child actors.{{r|Rahman}}

Nair was also inspired to make the film after watching Héctor Babenco's drama Pixote (1981). She said, "on the first day of shooting, I received the news that the child actor who played the character of Pixote was shot dead in the street. After this incident, I was more determined to make Salaam Bombay!, and decided to share the film's dividends with street children if we could."{{r|Shah}} After making four documentaries,{{r|AtKisson}} Salaam Bombay! was Nair's first full-length feature film.{{r|Manik}}

File:Krishna & Sola Saal in Salaam Bombay! (1988).jpg

Most of the film Salaam Bombay! was shot on Falkland Road, a red light district in Kamathipura, Bombay.{{r|Kulkarni}} The child actors in the film were real street children. The cast received drama training at a workshop in Bombay before they appeared in the film. Dinaz Stafford, a child psychologist, found the children, worked with them and assisted in the acting workshop run by Barry John. A room was rented near the Grant Road railway station for rehearsals, where about 130 children rehearsed on the first day.{{r|Rahman}} Later, before appearing in the film, a group of 24 street children trained in a workshop, where they were given music, dance and acting training. Gradually the stories of the city of Bombay, their parents, sex, trafficking, drug dealing, gangs and their profiteering were learned from them.{{r|Rahman}} Some were reunited with their families before the film was shot.{{r|Shah}} They were paid, had medical treatment, and some of that money was left as a fixed deposit.{{r|Rahman}} Irrfan Khan played the role of a letter writer in a two-minute scene in the film, which was his first appearance in a film.{{r|HT}}

After its release, director Nair with Dinaz Stafford established an organization called the Salaam Baalak Trust in 1989 to rehabilitate the children who appeared in the film.{{r|giveworld}} {{r|Rahman}} The Salaam Baalak Trust now lends support to street children in Bombay, Delhi and Bhubaneshwar. Shafiq Sayed, who played Krishna in the film, is currently living as an auto rickshaw driver in Bangalore.{{r|Seethalakshmi}}

Initially, Cadrage, Channel Four Films, Doordarshan, La Sept Cinéma, Mirabai Films and the National Film Development Corporation of India paid for the production of the film.{{sfn|Foster|1997|pp=119}}{{sfn|Arunachalam|2020|pp=1063}} Several producers co-produced the film with Nair, with Gabriel Auer from France as the executive producer, Michael Nozik from the UK and Anil Tejani from India and Cherry Rogers as the co-executive producers. Also in co-production were Jane Balfour and co-producer Mitch Epstein.

Salaam Bombay!: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, of the film was composed, performed, and directed by L. Subramaniam, was released on cassette and CD versions in 1986 from DRG Music Publishing. The song "Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo" was written by Qamar Jalalabadi, composed by O. P. Nayyar and sung by Geeta Dutt for the 1958 film Howrah Bridge is included in the film soundtrack. Also in a scene at the movie theatre, Sridevi's dance to the song "Hawa Hawaii" sung by Kavita Krishnamurti from the 1987 film Mr. India is performed.{{r|Mukhopadhyaya}}{{r|Ghosh}}

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| released = 1988

| genre = Stage & Screen

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{{Track listing

| headline = Salaam Bombay!: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

| extra_column = Performed by

| all_music = L. Subramaniam, Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo composed by Qamar Jalalabadi / O. P. Nayyar

| title1 = Main Titles

| length1 = 3:21

| extra1 = L. Subramaniam

| title2 = Chaipau's Theme

| length2 = 1:23

| extra2 = L. Subramaniam

| title3 = The Entry of Solasaal

| length3 = 1:33

| extra3 = L. Subramaniam

| title4 = Chick Melody

| length4 = 0:54

| extra4 = L. Subramaniam

| title5 = Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo

| length5 = 3:24

| extra5 = Geeta Dutt

| title6 = Chillum's Theme

| length6 = 4:56

| extra6 = L. Subramaniam

| title7 = Manju's Theme

| length7 = 1:11

| extra7 = L. Subramaniam

| title8 = Chaipau's Theme

| length8 = 0:56

| extra8 = L. Subramaniam

| title9 = Street Children Sing a Ballad of Lost Promises

| length9 = 1:54

| extra9 = L. Subramaniam

| title10 = Souls of Dead Children Floating

| length10 = 1:11

| extra10 = L. Subramaniam

| title11 = Escape From the Chiller Room

| length11 = 2:12

| extra11 = L. Subramaniam

| title12 = Baba Kisses Solasaal

| length12 = 1:21

| extra12 = L. Subramaniam

| title13 = Farewell to Manju

| length13 = 2:25

| extra13 = L. Subramaniam

| title14 = Chaipau Helps Chillum Across the Tracks

| length14 = 1:15

| extra14 = L. Subramaniam

| title15 = The Funeral Procession

| length15 = 4:31

| extra15 = L. Subramaniam

| title16 = Chaipau Sets Fire to Solasaal's Bed

| length16 = 1:13

| extra16 = L. Subramaniam

| title17 = Solasaal's Theme

| length17 = 1:01

| extra17 = L. Subramaniam

| title18 = Escape From the Chiller Room

| length18 = 2:54

| extra18 = L. Subramaniam

| title19 = Medley: Aartis for the Ganpati Festival

| length19 = 2:18

| extra19 = L. Subramaniam

| title20 = Chaipau Alone

| length20 = 2:21

| extra20 = L. Subramaniam

| title21 = End Credit Music

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| extra21 = L. Subramaniam

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Before commercial release, the film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1988. It was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September in 1988.

In 1988, the film was released on 24 August in France, on September in India, on 7 October at the 26th New York Film Festival,{{r|Canby}} on 20 December in Italy, and on 22 December in Belgium.

Following year, the film was released on 13 January in Denmark, 2 February in Netherlands, on 10 February in Finland, on 27 April in West Germany, on 29 June in Australia, on 27 July in Argentina, on 24 September at the Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival in Canada and 3 November in Sweden.

In 1990, the film was released on 26 January in East Germany, on 10 March in Japan, and on 5 April in Hungary. Following year, the film was released on 18 January in Portugal.

Salaam Bombay! earned {{US$|2080046}} in the United States and Canada,{{r|Mojo-Salaam}} from 506,100 ticket sales.{{Cite web |title="Салам, Бомбей" (Salaam Bombay!) |url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/23841/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=Kinopoisk |language=ru}} In France, the film sold 633,899 tickets;{{r|jpbox-france}} the average ticket price in 1988 was 34 {{nbsp}}francs,{{sfn|Hoffman|1992|pp=296}} which is equivalent to 21,552,566{{nbsp}}francs ({{US$|3803394}}). In Germany, the film sold 258,728 tickets;{{r|jpbox-europe}} the average ticket price in 1989 was 9.5{{nbsp}}DM,{{sfn|Naughton|2002|p=68}} which is equivalent to 2,457,916{{nbsp}}DM ({{US$|1550736}}). The average exchange rate in 1988 was 1 US dollar equal to 1.585 Deutsche Mark,{{r|history}} which is worth {{US$|1550736}}.

The film also sold 346 tickets in Switzerland and Spain since 1996,{{cite web |title=Salaam Bombay! |url=https://lumiere.obs.coe.int/movie/2222 |website=Lumiere |access-date=6 May 2022}} adding up to total overseas footfalls of {{formatnum:{{#expr:506100+633899+258728+346}}|}} tickets sold in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.

Against a production budget of $450,000,{{sfn|Foster|1997|pp=119}} the film grossed an estimated total of {{US$|7434176}} in overseas markets, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets at that time.{{r|Variety}} The average exchange rate in 1988 was 1 US dollar equal to {{INR|13.9171}},{{r|sauder}} which is equivalent to {{INRConvert|103462171|year=1988}}.

The film was re-released in France on 12 December 2001 and 7 January 2015. In 2005, it was also screened at the New Horizons Film Festival in Poland on 23 July. The film was re-released in Indian theatres in March 2013.{{r|Jamkhandikar}} In 2015, at the BFI London Film Festival, the film was screened on 9 October, and on 18 October at the Tallgrass Film Festival in the United States.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

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|quote = "In that respect Salaam Bombay! is quite different from Pixote, the 1981 film about Brazilian street children. Although the two films obviously have much in common, the children of Pixote exist in an anarchic and savage world, while those in "Salaam Bombay!" share a community, however humble."

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Salaam Bombay! mainly received positive reviews from critics who commented on the cultural and social impact of the film. On the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 30 reviews, with a rating average of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Salaam Bombay! examines life in a part of the world that many viewers have never visited - but does so with enough compassion and grace to make them feel as if they have."{{r|Tomatoes-Salaam}} At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating to reviews, the film has a score of 78 based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".{{r|Metacritic-re-release}}

Roger Ebert wrote, "The history of the making of "Salaam Bombay!" is almost as interesting as the film itself."{{r|Ebert}} English writer Hilary Mantel commented, "A warm and lively film, made by Mira Nair with only a handful of professional actors."{{r|Mantel}} Ted Shen of Chicago Reader wrote that, "like Hector Babenco's Pixote the film is unsparingly gritty, but with a woman's tenderness it also grants the characters an occasional moment of grace."{{r|Shen}} Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote that, "Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings."{{r|Corliss}} American film critic Dave Kehr stated, "Much to Nair`s credit, she exploits neither the exoticism of her locale (there are no tour-guide, look-at-this flourishes) nor the misery of her subjects (suffer they may, but they do not demand pity)."{{r|Kehr}} American film critic David Sterritt stated, "the movie is terrifically well-acted and beautifully filmed, however, marking an auspicious feature-film debut for Indian-American director Mira Nair."{{r|Sterritt}} Peter Travers commented that "poetic, powerful and disturbing, Salaam Bombay! transcends language and cultural barriers.{{r|Travers}}

Emanuel Levy, thought that the film "drew its intensity and colour from its locale, the slums of Bombay."{{r|Levy}} Vincent Canby says, "for a film about such hopelessness, Salaam Bombay! is surprisingly cheering."{{r|Canby}} Christopher Null wrote, "with Salaam, Nair proves an early ability with a camera and at getting performances out of obviously inexperienced actors, but her writing talents are much sketchier."{{r|Null}} Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, "Nair's film has been compared to Hector Babenco's chilling "Pixote," a Brazilian look at a 10-year-old street criminal, but hers is a more compassionate, though equally troubling, portrait."{{r|Kempley}} On movie review site Rediff.com critic Sukanya Verma commented, Salaam Bombay! "still brilliant in 25 years."{{r|Verma}}

• Salaam Baalak Trust
• List of submissions to the 61st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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• {{cite news |last1=Shen |first1=Ted |title=Salaam Bombay! |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/salaam-bombay/Film?oid=1061246 |access-date=23 May 2020 |publisher=Chicago Reader |date=29 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414200930/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/salaam-bombay/Film?oid=1061246 |archive-date=14 April 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Corliss |first1=Richard |author-link1=Richard Corliss |title=Cinema: Subcontinental Divide |magazine=Time |date=24 October 1988 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,968764,00.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414200923/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,968764,00.html |archive-date=14 April 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |last1=Kehr |first1=Dave |author-link1=Dave Kehr |title='SALAAM BOMBAY!' FOLLOWS LOST-CHILD-IN-CITY GENRE |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-10-28-8802110198-story.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=28 October 1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815222251/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-10-28-8802110198-story.html |archive-date=15 August 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |last=Sterritt |first=David |author-link=David Sterritt |title=FREEZE FRAMES |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1007/lff07.html |access-date=23 May 2020 |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |date=7 October 1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414200924/https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1007/lff07.html |archive-date=14 April 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite magazine|last1=Travers |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Travers |title=Picks and Pans Review: Salaam Bombay |magazine=People |date=7 November 1988 |url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-salaam-bombay-vol-30-no-19/ |access-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129072631/http://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-salaam-bombay-vol-30-no-19/ |archive-date=29 November 2017 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Emanuel |author-link1=Emanuel Levy |title=Salaam Bombay |url=https://emanuellevy.com/review/salaam-bombay-6/ |publisher=emanuellevy.com |access-date=23 May 2020 |date=2 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505120246/http://emanuellevy.com/review/salaam-bombay-6/ |archive-date=5 May 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last=Null |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Null |title=Salaam Bombay! |url=https://www.amc.com/movie/1988/Salaam+Bombay! |publisher=AMC |access-date=23 May 2020 |date=23 February 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129072639/http://www.amc.com/movie/1988/Salaam+Bombay! |archive-date=29 November 2017 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |last1=Kempley |first1=Rita |title='Salaam Bombay!' : (NR) |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/salaambombay.htm |access-date=23 May 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=4 November 1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030224856/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/salaambombay.htm |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=Verma |first1=Sukanya |author-link1=Sukanya Verma |title=Salaam Bombay review: 25 Years on, still brilliant! |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-salaam-bombay-is-still-brilliant/20130322.htm |website=Rediff.com |access-date=23 May 2020 |date=22 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509093508/http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-salaam-bombay-is-still-brilliant/20130322.htm |archive-date=9 May 2014 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/allAward.html |title=Awards 1988: All Awards |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228211216/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1988/allAward.html |archive-date=28 December 2014 |df=dmy}}
• {{cite news |last=Schuldt |first=Clay |title=Film Society to show 'Salaam Bombay' |url=https://www.nujournal.com/news/local-news/2018/03/10/film-society-to-show-salaam-bombay/ |access-date=22 May 2020 |publisher=The Journal |date=10 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310091929/http://www.nujournal.com/news/local-news/2018/03/10/film-society-to-show-salaam-bombay/ |archive-date=10 March 2018}}
• {{cite news |last1=Easton |first1=Nina j. |title=L.A. Film Critics Vote Lahti, Hanks, 'Dorrit' Winners |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-12-ca-187-story.html |access-date=22 May 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 December 1988 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601134731/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-12/entertainment/ca-187_1_l-a-film-critics |archive-date=1 June 2016}}
• {{cite news |title=National Board of Review 1988 |url=http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1988 |access-date=22 May 2020 |publisher=National Board of Review |date=1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083539/http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1988 |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
• {{cite web |title=BSFC Winners: 1980s |url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1980s/ |publisher=Boston Society of Film Critics |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723012332/https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1980s/ |archive-date=23 July 2019 |date=1980}}
• {{cite web |title=Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 1988 |url=http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/awards/29-awards-of-the-montreal-world-film-festival-1988.html |publisher=Montreal World Film Festival |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926110715/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/awards/29-awards-of-the-montreal-world-film-festival-1988.html |archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=usurped |date=1988}}
• {{cite web |title=Winners & Nominees 1989 |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1989?page=2 |publisher=Golden Globe Awards |access-date=22 May 2020 |date=28 January 1989}}
• {{cite web |title=The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006074956/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/61st-winners.html |archive-date=6 October 2014 |date=29 March 1989}}
• {{cite web |title=36th National Film Festival |url=https://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/81_36thNfacatalogue.pdf |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153343/https://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/81_36thNfacatalogue.pdf |archive-date=9 November 2018 |location=India |pages=34, 60 |date=1989}}
• {{cite web |title=Palmarès depuis 1989 |url=http://www.annonaypremierfilm.org/archives-du-festival/palmares/ |publisher=Annonay International Film Festival |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329044158/http://www.annonaypremierfilm.org/archives-du-festival/palmares/ |archive-date=29 March 2019 |date=1989}}
• {{cite web |title=Film in 1990 |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1990/film |publisher=British Academy Film Awards |access-date=22 May 2020 |date=1990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074044/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1990/film |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Gwendolyn Audrey |author-link1=Gwendolyn Audrey Foster |year=1997 |chapter=7 |title=Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jiBlevikccC&q=Salaam+Bombay%21&pg=PA119 |edition=illustrated, reprint |publisher=SIU Press |pages=111–126 |isbn=9780809321209 }}
• {{cite magazine |last=Denby |first=David |editor-last=Haskell |editor-first=David |title=A Tale of Two Cities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auUCAAAAMBAJ&q=Salaam+Bombay%21+making&pg=PA113 |department=Movies |magazine=New York |date=24 October 1988 |location=New York |publication-date=24 October 1988 |volume=21 |issue=42 |page=113 |issn=0028-7369}}
• {{cite book |last1=Levy |first1=Emanuel |author-link=Emanuel Levy |chapter=Erotica: Mira Nair |title=Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKEaiePVDpIC&q=Salaam+Bombay%21&pg=PA383 |publisher=NYU Press |date=1 September 1999 |pages=383–385 |isbn=9780814752890}}
• {{cite book |last=Naficy |first=Hamid |author-link=Hamid Naficy |chapter=3 |title=An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SoKeH59mLfQC&q=Salaam+Bombay%21+making&pg=PA68 |edition=illustrated |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2001 |pages=68–70 |isbn=9780691043913}}
• {{cite book |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007 |date=15 January 2009 |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |isbn=9780740792175 |pages=669–670 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v43dJNPMJIkC&q=Salaam+Bombay%21+making&pg=RA1-PA667}}
• {{cite book |last=Taraporevala |first=Sooni |author-link=Sooni Taraporevala |title=Salaam Bombay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWX8rQEACAAJ&q=Salaam+Bombay!+making |publisher=Motilal Penguin India |year=2013 |isbn=9780143420651}}
• {{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Mark S. |title=The World Almanac & Book of Facts |year=1992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nk4wAAAAMAAJ&q=ticket+price |publisher=Pharos Books |location=NY |isbn=978-0886876586 |edition=125th anniversary }}
• {{cite book |year=2002 |last=Naughton |first=Leonie |title=That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the "new" Germany |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AugFhjJZz0QC&pg=PA68 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0472088881 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Muir |first1=John Kenneth |author-link1=John Kenneth Muir |title=Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair |date=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard LLC |isbn=1557836493 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEte5ilhCTcC&q=Los+Angeles+Women+in+Film+Festival+Lilian+Gish+Award&pg=PA59 }}
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