Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro

"Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro" is a story of Salim a muslim gangster and the tensions of communal riots around him and how the ideology of Salim has changed when he met Aslam. It's a movie crafted with beauty and mood of an era gone by. It need to be watched for its realism, good acting and top notch direction.

The DVD of this film has just been released in India. I wish the film was re-released in the theaters. The film and the character of Pavan Malhotra(Salim) grows on you. By the time you reach the middle of the movie, almost everything that Salim feels you feel it with him.

The film explores the psyche of the minority community in a city/country. Salim is uneducated, his father could only afford to educate his eldest son, who dies of a shock while working as an electrician. Salim, the younger son is uneducated so falls into bad company and is almost on the verge of getting integrated into the Bombay underworld. Some events make him realise that he must change and earn an honest living... his quest to earn clean, white money is poignant. He is so enmeshed in this bad world that getting out of it is going to be difficult. His pain becomes almost palpable.

Beautifully made... I wish more of these came out on DVDs. We mistakenly say that Indians make no movies without song and dance, and films on serious issues. We make them, they just don't become as famous for lack of big heroes in them.

I hope to see "Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai" released on DVD soon!

I recently got introduced to the filmography of Mirza Saeed Akhtar, and i dont know why i didnt watch this film before. It has a great cast, pawan malhotra is perfect as an angry muslim youth facing the difficulties and dillemas of being a minority. Everything is beautifully potrayed. Do watch this.

Some gem always remain buried underneath somewhere which only gets its value once unearthed; "Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro" is surely one shuch gem of art. I have seen some movies from 50s,60s,70s and so on in different languages. Amongst them some were those which I called ahead of their time and still relevant today and some were film which were just released yester years but still lagging in time and there were others which doesn't even matter. It's the first time I have watched a movie which I can say is for all the time. It's immortal in my views. And it's indeed necessary to unearth such films and bring it forward to the audience which deserves it.

Movie based on a Gangster who belongs to Muslim community, runs in slow pace with its own realistic characteristics and acting.

Saleem Bhai, who is a gangster, indulge in various criminal activities but due to some precedent events his heart starts changing. He start taking care of his family and starts enjoying the common man life. There were instances when he used to show knife to people and take some money away from them, now there were instances when he thinks of providing better education to his sister's children.

Movie remains into real human, instead showing the protagonist as superhuman.

Movie, build around Bombay Riots, suggests an outlook and points to the political advantage behind communal riots. It tries to expose people behind such riots which effects common people most.

Nice but slow flick to watch.