Salaam Bombay is a 1988 Hindi-language Crime Drama motion picture written by Hriday Lani, Mira Nair and Sooni Taraporevala. The movie is directed by Mira Nair and produced by Mira Nair, Anil Tejani, Michael Nozik and Gabriel Auer. The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return.. Salaam bombay stars Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma and Sheikh Haroon. The screenplay is written by Sooni Taraporevala. The music was composed by L. Subramaniam. Cinematography was done by Sandi Sissel and editing by Barry Alexander Brown. The film has a running time of 113 minutes. It was released on 24th August 1988. The film made a box office gross of ₹74 lakh. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Alliance. At the 1989 National Film Awards It won 2 awards including: Best Child Artist and Best Regional Film (Hindi).