In a corner of India, a man was dreaming... He dreamed that he came to his mother with 500 rupees, hoping that he and his mother would not be in so much pain. But when he was about to put it into his mother's hands, he saw children like him all around, and more than a dozen very old people. These people immediately surrounded her, and he was slowly swallowed up by the crowd... Born in a middle-class family in a small town in India, she once worked as an actress. In 1976, she entered Harvard University in the United States to study, where she began to fall in love with filmmaking. When she was a student, she filmed a series of documentaries about contemporary Indian society, which gained a certain degree of influence. Meera Nair's first feature film "SALLAM BOMBAY!" (SALLAM BOMBAY!) shows the painful life of a little boy struggling in the slums of Mumbai. It uses documentary techniques and realism style to effectively reveal the tragic experience of street children. Although it is a debut film, it is stable and mature. It won the Golden Camera Award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Since the 1980s, Mirab Nair has become an iconic figure in Indian cinema in the West. Her other films include MISSISSIPPI MASALA
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