Mira Nair
After Acclaimed Film ‘Salaam Bombay!’ Screened, Q&A with Director Mira Nair
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Avon Theatre presents the Anglo-Indian film Salaam Bombay! (1988) on Thursday, May 17, and after the performance, the director, Mira Nair, will take questions from the audience. The film, shown at 7:30 p.m. won the Golden Camera and Prix de Publique awards at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film joins the ranks of such previous “street children” classics as Shoeshine (1946) and Pixote (1981). Shafiq Syed plays Krishna, a country boy forced to grow up in the slums of New Delhi.