Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro

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.

Well,I would say 1980-90 has been the best decade for the Indian Cinema. Parallel Cinema came to rise n flourished. Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro comes under that category. The central character Saleem is an uneducated chap who fills his pocket by doing petty crimes. He dreams of settling down by doing something big.

The characters are the strongest point of this film. Actually had a doubt over Pawan Malhotra for this major role but he has been excellent.

The film depicts the thinking of the uneducated Muslims.The gradual development in Saleem is beautifully shown.He begins to question his integrity his existence.

Kudos to the director for not inserting any unnecessary vulgar scene.

His unemployed father, his mother,his friends,his courtesan girlfriend the somewhat gypsy,the hotel owner all leave their mark.

Recommend watching!

"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.