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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 film from India directed by Mira Nair.Krishna is a boy of 12 or so, homeless, living in the streets of Mumbai aka Bombay, with a little circle of friends that sleep in an alley. He is working as a delivery boy for a tea shop, toting a tray with single glasses of tea on it, making a meager few rupees a day from the tea shop owner, from which he gets docked if someone steals a glass of tea or someone breaks a glass.Krishna is living in the Kamathipura district of Bombay, a notorious Wretched Hive filled with brothels, Streetwalkers, drug dealers and drug addicts. Among those drug addicts is Chillum, who is addicted to "brown" (heroin?) and also sells it on the streets for a drug dealer named Baba. Baba also happens to be a pimp, married to a thirty-ish prostitute named Rekha; they have a daughter named Manju who is a little younger than Krishna. If all that isn't depressing enough, a 16-year-old girl named Sola Saal has been forced against her will into a brothel in the neighborhood. She's a virgin and the creepy Miss Kitty of the brothel very much wants to sell off Sola Saal's virginity, but the girl has to be "tamed" first.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Irrfan Khan, who would go on to be a major star in Bollywood cinema, made his film debut. He appears briefly as a professional scribe who writes a letter for illiterate Krishna.
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 Barefoot Poverty: Krishna and all his friends wander around the streets barefoot, and just as an exclamation point one scene shows a naked toddler wandering around unattended.
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 Department of Child Disservices: Krishna and Manju are picked up by the cops for no obvious reason. They are then both held in a nightmarish youth hall that's basically a prison for children. Rekha tries to reclaim her daughter, only to be told that she's a prostitute so she can't have Manju back.
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 Abusive Parents: Krishna's mother is The Ghost, never seen. But the whole reason that Krishna is on the streets in the first place is that after Krishna set fire to his bullying older brother's motorbike, his mom chucked him out of the house. He can't come back until he earns the 500 rupees necessary to replace the motorbike.
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