Don't be a Plum!
sometimes people really piss me off…. so then I watch a movie

• 24 February 2010

I saw this movie before I saw Slumdog Millionnaire and it ruined Slumdog for me. I think Slumdog is a cheap ripoff of Salaam Bombay, which is a movie that has real taste and characters that are human and have depth to them.

It’s a movie about street kids in Bombay. It starts with a little boy named Krishna. He does something wrong so his mother tells him he has to work at the circus in order to pay for it and he can’t come home until he does. So then he works at the circus but one day his boss sends him out on an errand and when he comes back the entire circus has left without him. So he is all alone.

So then, Krishna decides to go to Bombay and work so he can get enough money to go back to his mum. He makes some friends with street kids like Manju and a drug addict named Chillum. He also falls in love with a girl named Sola Saal who he wants to save from becoming a prostitute. He does some bad things like robbing and old man and setting things on fire, and he has bad things done to him, like being robbed and treated badly in his chai tea delivery job. He keeps hoping to get back to his mother the whole movie so he can go back to his little village.

I liked this movie because the kids in it were real children who had been through difficult things, like in the Brazilian movie Pixote, which was made in 1981. I really like movies about street kids. It’s like these kids didn’t have anything to do with getting where they are but they have so many problems to deal with. Movies like this make me feel very lucky and they also make me want to do more to help street kids who aren’t as lucky as me.

-Plum

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