Salaam Bombay! (1988) by Mira Nair
Still considered today the best of Mira Nair’s work, I meant to see this movie ages ago and the fact that I saw Slumdog Millionnaire on release but that I had yet to see the “real deal” kept bothering me. Now that it’s done, I can confirm what I suspected all that time, i.e. Salaam Bombay! feels like a genuine and moving piece of Mumbai street life, whereas Slumdog is sweet and entertaining but forgettable fluff.
Posts for Saturday, 4 July 2009
Shirin Aliabadi’s Hybrid Girls
Damn, I’ve just missed Made in Iran, a group show exhibiting the work of young contemporary artists currently living and working in Iran.
From the series “Being twenty in Iran” by Iranian/French photographer Isabelle Eshraghi
Click here to see the whole series
Listen here to the Persian music she’s chosen as the soundtrack to her website
