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Bombay (Motion picture : 1995)

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  • "Bumbai"
  • "Manirathnam's Bombay"
  • "Mani Ratman's Bombay"
  • "Mani Ratnam's Bombay"
  • "Jhamu Sugandh presents Mani Ratnam's"

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  • "A romance occurs between a south Indian Hindu man and a Muslim woman. They marry against family wishes and move to Bombay. The time period of the film is set in the December 1992-January 1993 period when the "Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid" controversy had raised racial tensions in Bombay (and other parts of India)."
  • "A Hindu man and a Muslim woman marry against family wishes and move to Bombay. There they make a life for themselves but during the "Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid" controversy the couple lose their parents and parents to the riots and violence that ensue."
  • "A turbulent love story interspersed with musical numbers and set against a background of religious violence in Bombay, India."
  • "A Muslim woman and Hindu man fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents."
  • "Shekar doing jounalism in Bombay visits his village and falls in live with Banu, a muslim girl. In the face of severe opposition from tradition bound parents they flee from their village to Bombay. They lead a happy married life in Bombay with their twin children, until Bombay is rocked by communal riots."
  • "Feature film from India. Musical. Drama. A Hindu journalist marries a Muslim woman from his village, and they move to Mumbai (Bombay) where religious tensions are on the rise."
  • "A Hindu man and a Muslim woman marry against the wishes of their families. They have twin children, and live happily in the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai. However, when Hindus destroy a Muslim temple, interfaith rioting wracks the city, and the family is separated, with the twins seized by rioters who demand to know their religion and pour petrol on their skin. Only when ordinary citizens stand up to end the fighting is the family safely reunited."
  • "A Hindu, Shekhar is a journalist studing in Bombay and a Muslim, Shaila Bhanu meet and they fall in love. Shekhar and Shaila Bhanu cut off all contacts with their parents and get married. Despite such tensions, the two raise a secular family. One of their twins take the Hindu grandfather's name and the other takes the Muslim grandfather's name. All is well until December 1992, when their lives are violently disrupted due to political events. The twins are grabbed by rioters who pour petrol over them and ask them their religion. They are rescued as the police start firing. Finally it is the ordinary citizens of Bombay who stand up bravely against the evil elements and stop the riots and join hands to form a human chain of harmony."
  • ""Based on true incidents. Personifies Hindu-Muslim racial tensions ... starts out a love story, a romance between a south Indian Hindu man and a Muslim woman ... taboo in the small village they hail from. They marry against family wishes and move to Bombay ... The rest of the film is set in the December 1992-January 1993 period when the "Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid" controversy had raised racial tensions in Bombay (and other parts of India) and sparked riots and violence. The family is separated from the children and fathers of both parents are killed ... An underlying moral of thinking of oneself as an Indian rather than a Hindu or a Muslim is prevalent throughout the latter part of the film"--Munseh Makhija in Internet Movie Database."
  • "Love story about a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl."
  • "A romance occurs between a south Indian Hindu man and a Muslim woman; against the wishes of their families they marry, and move to Bombay. The film is set in the period between December 1992-January 1993 when the "Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid" controversy raised racial tensions in Bombay (and other parts of India)."

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  • "Musical films"
  • "Features"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Romance films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Videos, Hindi"
  • "DVD-Video discs"
  • "Motion pictures, Indic"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
  • "Drama"

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  • "Bombay (Motion picture : 1995)"
  • "Bombay (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica) (1995)"
  • "Bombay"
  • "Bombay Bombayi"

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