Salaam Bombay Salaam Silence

Oliver Twist of India! Yes boy's name is Krishna and he is filmy creation of Mira Nair, though you can see them in anywhere of the world. Nair is internationally recognized Indian film maker. Krishna was created by her in film called 'Salaam Bombay' (1988). For this film she got awarded in Cannes Festival.

'Salaam Bombay' is a film of silence. Why I am labeling this film in such a way? The main characters of this film are Krishna or Chaipau (tea boy), the protagonist, Manju , a prostitute and wife of pimp Baba, other two important characters were young prostitute Sola Saal and drug pusher Chillum who was addicted too, everybody ended up with a silence.

We saw Krishna after many twist and turns at the end when he lost everything literally, mother, village, circus team, friend Chillum, Sola Saal, the sixteen aged young prostitute, Krishna has crashed on her, his boyhood friend the daughter of Manjo and Manjo, didi of Krishna. Last scene of the film we saw a silent pose of the boy where he was collapsing in itself for a helpless situation.

We saw same thing happened with the girl Sola Saal, in fact she can't speak, when a buyer got her she had nothing to lose but tears. We saw Manjo the wife of a drug lord and pimp Baba, she also ends up with a silence when she lost Krishna, her last hope. Chillum also ended up with a silence after taking over dose of drugs, before that he was kicked out by Baba, so he got frustrated. Baba was stabbed by Krishna, that also made Baba silent. Yes silence is golden here.

In this bunch of golden silence there is a naval point that is in the police van when Krishna was taken to juvenile home. In that time another arrested guy with Krishna said, "Everything will be fixed in India". I think that sentence is outlining the whole golden silence of the film, that sentence is not merely a sentence but hope. Only hope could stand beside when everything falls apart, when people got silent after endless sorrows, when poverty slashed the life poorly.