Salaam Bombay poster for sale.
Featured here is an actual surviving original Bollywood poster of the cult 1988 Hindi film directed by Mira Nair that showcased the hard hitting reality of homeless children living on the streets of Mumbai.
Salaam Bombay! (1988) won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, the National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Film, the Golden Camera and Audience Awards at the Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the Montréal World Film Festival.
At the 61st Academy Awards, Salaam Bombay! (1988) won a nomination for Best International Feature Film. It has the distinction of being India’s second film to be nominated for an Oscar (after Mother India (1957)), making this Bollywood poster, highly collectible!
Produced by Mira Nair and Michael Nozik, Salaam Bombay! (1988) was co-financed by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It starred Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Nana Patekar, Irrfan Khan, Sanjana Kapoor, Anita Kanwar and Chanda Sharma in key roles.
Printed and circulated during the first release of the film (somewhere in 1988), this Salaam Bombay poster was originally designed for publicity of the film in theaters but never ended up being used.
This photographic Bollywood poster features a large close up photograph of Nana Patekar on the left. The young prostitute who is forced into the flesh trade, “Sola Saal (Sixteen year old)” is seen at the bottom of this old Bollywood poster.
Most of the young actors who appeared in Salaam Bombay! were actual street children. To prepare them for the film, they received special training in drama at a workshop in Bombay. Salaam Bombay! (1988) finds mention in the list of “The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made” compiled by the New York Times.
