Salaam Bombay indeed, it has been 25 years since filmmaker Mira Nair's path breaking film hit the big screens. <br />The movie co-written by Sooni Taraporewala and Mira Nair, is based on the lives of slum children in then Bombay, now Mumbai struck a chord.<br />Celebrating 25 years of the film, a full house awaited Mira Nair at the film's screening in New Delhi.<br />Speaking on the occasion Mira Nair said, "I wondered when I was in Bhubaneshwar that can art impact life? And when I made Salaam Bombay I realized it can. The movie also made us set up the Salaam Balak Trust for the empowerment of slum children. This movie truly did make an impact." <br />Salaam Bombay was also the launch pad of National Award winning actor Irrfan Khan, and it was surely a moment of pride for Mira Nair. <br />Mira Nair's next movie would be a film for Disney about a Ugandan slum girl. The director said that the film is about an eight year old girl, who working in the corn fields and at the age of ten she becomes a chess champ. Talking about her movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is all set to hit theatres on May 10, 2013, Mira Nair said: "It's a beautiful coming of age story of a young Muslim boy and his American dream. It is a film that touches a chord and does not sermonize."
