Product Description

Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) adds her angry voice to the cinema of forgotten children in this wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real-life street child Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless children and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets. The fantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters, movies, and radio tunes, momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by brutal pimps and drug dealers.

This is a gritty look into the underbelly and plight of Bombay's poor street children, who call the gutters of its filthy urban streets home. It is filled with the sights and sounds of this urban nightmare. This highly acclaimed film allows the viewer a peek at another culture, only to find that basic human needs and desires are universal.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

- Commentary by Mira Nair

- 5 x Featurettes

AWARDS & ACCREDITATIONS:

- Academy Award Nomination (Best Foreign Film)

- BAFTA Award (Best Foreign Film)

- Golden Globe Nominated (Best Foreign Film)

- Cesar Award (Best Foreign Film)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23427 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-03-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Synopsis
Mira Nair's first feature is an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna (Shafiq Syed) is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming job of staying alive quickly makes that dream an unlikely reality. He develops the street-smarts needed to survive in the seedy world of prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, and other homeless children, but the harrowing experience takes an extremely heavy emotional toll on him. Krishna, however, remains determined to raise the money to return home.

Customer Reviews

Slumdog without Millionaire
Get a rather truer but no less engaging film on life in the Mumbai slums.