Mira Nair at Premiere of 'Salaam Bombay'
- 8 years ago
Salaam Bombay indeed, it has been 25 years since filmmaker Mira Nair's path breaking film hit the big screens.
The movie co-written by Sooni Taraporewala and Mira Nair, is based on the lives of slum children in then Bombay, now Mumbai struck a chord.
Celebrating 25 years of the film, a full house awaited Mira Nair at the film's screening in New Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion Mira Nair said, "I wondered when I was in Bhubaneshwar that can art impact life? And when I made Salaam Bombay I realized it can. The movie also made us set up the Salaam Balak Trust for the empowerment of slum children. This movie truly did make an impact."
Salaam Bombay was also the launch pad of National Award winning actor Irrfan Khan, and it was surely a moment of pride for Mira Nair.
Mira Nair's next movie would be a film for Disney about a Ugandan slum girl. The director said that the film is about an eight year old girl, who working in the corn fields and at the age of ten she becomes a chess champ. Talking about her movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is all set to hit theatres on May 10, 2013, Mira Nair said: "It's a beautiful coming of age story of a young Muslim boy and his American dream. It is a film that touches a chord and does not sermonize."
The movie co-written by Sooni Taraporewala and Mira Nair, is based on the lives of slum children in then Bombay, now Mumbai struck a chord.
Celebrating 25 years of the film, a full house awaited Mira Nair at the film's screening in New Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion Mira Nair said, "I wondered when I was in Bhubaneshwar that can art impact life? And when I made Salaam Bombay I realized it can. The movie also made us set up the Salaam Balak Trust for the empowerment of slum children. This movie truly did make an impact."
Salaam Bombay was also the launch pad of National Award winning actor Irrfan Khan, and it was surely a moment of pride for Mira Nair.
Mira Nair's next movie would be a film for Disney about a Ugandan slum girl. The director said that the film is about an eight year old girl, who working in the corn fields and at the age of ten she becomes a chess champ. Talking about her movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is all set to hit theatres on May 10, 2013, Mira Nair said: "It's a beautiful coming of age story of a young Muslim boy and his American dream. It is a film that touches a chord and does not sermonize."