Movies
Boot Polish (1954)
This award-winning Hindi film portrays a young boy and girl as street beggars-turned-shoe shiners in a Mumbai squatter community.
Joggers' Park (2003)
Mumbai's leafy "Joggers' Park" is the backdrop for this offbeat and lighthearted love story between a retired (married) judge and young, single model.
Life in a…Metro (2007)
Modern Mumbai is center stage for this Hindi-language film that interweaves the stories of a diverse group of Mumbaikars and deals with infidelity and other issues of the heart.Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Filmed on the streets of Bombay with a cast of mostly street kids, director Mira Nair's Oscar-nominated drama has the feel of a documentary. The story follows bright but illiterate village-boy Krishna (who takes on the name Chaipau) who becomes one of Bombay's street urchins and learns that they make up a kind of community despite their harsh living conditions.
Traffic Signal (2007)
Inspired by the Mumbaikars who earn their bread from drivers paused at the city's traffic lights, this Bollywood movie provides a window into the daily life of Mumbai's marginalized population, from a girl selling ethnic clothes on the sidewalk to a prostitute and drug addict.
