Posted by marci.l.angevine@Vanderbilt.Edu on Thursday, October 16, 2014 in Activities Everyone.

Presented by: Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies
UK, India, France (1988) Dir: Mira Nair. After the boy Krishna is kicked out of his home and abandoned by the circus, he takes a train to Bombay where he joins a community of street kids and gets a job selling tea for a street bar. He befriends the heroin-addicted Chillum who sells drugs for the local dealer, and the girl Manju, the daughter of a prostitute. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but life on the streets of Bombay is not easy. Mira Nair’s first feature was made with non-actors, including a number of street children. A superb film that gives a bird’s eye view into the plight of India’s urban street children. Hindi and English with English subtitles. DVD. 113 minutes. Partial funding provided by the Department of History.