Details

Edition

Limited edition.

Description

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Series

MGM Limited Edition Collection

Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection.

System Details

DVD; Region 1; NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1 ratio) ; Digitally enhanced 5.1 surround and mono.

Note

This is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Language

In Hindi; optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.

Cast

Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chandra Sharma, Raghubir Yadav, Aneeta Kanwar, Nana Patekar.

Credits

Editor, Barry Alexander Brown; music, L. Subramaniam ; director of photography, Sandi Sissel.

Note

Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams on saving 500 rupees to return home, but the life on the streets of Bombay is not easy. ."--IMDb.

Note

Special features: Commentary with director Mira Nair; Commentary with cinematographer Sandi Sissel; Featurettes; Photo gallery; Theatrical trailer.

Subject

Homeless youth -- India -- Mumbai -- Drama.

Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- Drama.

Street life -- India -- Mumbai -- Drama.

Poor children -- Abuse of -- India -- Mumbai -- Drama.

Homeless youth.

Poor children -- Abuse of.

Social conditions.

Street life.

India -- Mumbai.

Genre/Form

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Foreign films.

Motion pictures, Hindi .

Added Author

Nair, Mira,

Taraporevala, Sooni, 1957-

Syed, Shafiq,

Vithal, Hansa,

Sharma, Chanda,

Kanwar, Anita,

Yadav, Raghuvir,

Patekar, Nana, 1951-

Subramaniam, L.,

Brown, Barry Alexander,

Sissel, Sandi,

Mirabai Films (Firm)

Film Four International.

National Film Development Corporation of India.

Cadrage S.A. (Firm)

Sept Cinéma (Firm)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Standard No.

883904304548