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Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming job of staying alive quickly makes that dream an unreality. He develops the street-smarts needed to survive in the seedy world of prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, and other homeless children, but the harrowing experience takes an extremely heavy emotional toll on him. Although Krishna keeps trying to raise the money to return home, it is, in the end, a hopeless task.
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Best Director
1990 Filmfare Awards (Mumbai, India)
Best Foreign Film
1989 César Awards (France)
Best Foreign Language Film
1990 BAFTA Awards (London, United Kingdom)
Best Foreign Language Film
1989 Golden Globe Awards (Los Angeles, United States)
Golden Camera
1998 Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France)
Jury Prize
1988 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Lilian Gish Award-Excellence in Feature Film
1988 Los Angeles Women in Film Festival (Los Angeles, United States)
Most Popular Film
1988 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
1989 Academy Awards (Hollywood, United States)
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
1988 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
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"...Remarkably good....[Nair] is a new film maker to watch..."
- Vincent Canby, New York Times
"...Like any true film document, it carries hints and echoes of other cultures, other wrenching case histories, from Hong Kong to the South Bronx..."
- Mary Corliss, Film Comment
"...Assured and passionate....Nair has a wonderful eye and a truly cinematic sense of story. She doesn't tell in words what the eye of her camera can say with more authority..."
- Sheila Benton, Los Angeles Times
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