Sooni Taraporevala

Salaam Bombay is a 1988 Hindi film directed by Mira Nair, and written by Sooni Taraporevala.

Mira Nair

1988 was a grand year for India with Gautam Ghose's Antarjali Jatra being screened under Un Certain Regard and Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!

by Deepa Mehta

Oh, sorry to confuse, Salaam Bombay is by Deepa Mehta.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden

You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen — NPR's Jennifer Ludden wrote the screenplays for Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards.

Dr. L. Subramaniam

Dr. L. Subramaniam has composed music for films such as Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala, and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha.

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Irrfan Khan has appeared in mainstream productions, but Irrfan Khan's talent is best displayed in art house hits like Salaam Bombay!

Kavita Krishnamurti's credits

Kavita Krishnamurti also began composing film scores and Kavita Krishnamurti's credits include: ‘Salaam Bombay’ (1988) and ‘Mississippi Masala’ (1991) for Mira Nair and ‘Little Buddha’ (1993) by Bernardo Bertolucci.

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The most internationally acclaimed Hindi film of the 1980s was Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!

the poet Mangesh Padgaonkar

Around the same time, the poet Mangesh Padgaonkar wrote Mangesh Padgaonkar's scathingly sarcastic poem, Salaam, about the pusillanimity of the intellectual class that cravenly bowed to power.

Hardev Dilgir

Hardev Dilgir, Babu Singh Maan, Munsif, Qamar Jalalabadi and Mahinder Kaailay penned the lyrics.

Shakeel Badayuni

The lyricist was Shakeel Badayuni, an "accomplished Urdu poet" who had arrived in Mumbai in 1946, to write songs for Hindi films.

A R Rahman

And then A R Rahman had composed this for Bombay.

in several films Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire

Depicted in several films, including Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Salaam Bombay is a city within a city and home to over 1million people.