🎬 Poverty, Pickpockets & Pure Heartache in Salaam Bombay! 🎬

Watch the Mira Nair Interview here.

In this episode of Fear of Stairs: Desi Films Decoded, we dive head-first into Zohan Mamdani's mom, Mira Nair’s 1988 classic Salaam Bombay!—the raw, Oscar-nominated drama that put Mumbai’s street kids on the global map.

Join us as we chat about:

・ How Nair balances gut-punch realism with genuine empathy—no Bollywood sugar-coating here.

・ The cast of real street children and the wild “acting bootcamp” that taught them to focus long enough for a take.

・ Poverty-porn versus powerful storytelling—where’s the line, and does this film cross it?