Salaam Mumbai

Salaam Mumbai
Directed byGhorban Mohammadpour
Written byGhorban Mohammadpour
Produced byPahlaj Nihalani
Javad Noroozbeigi
StarringMohammad Reza Golzar
Dia Mirza
CinematographyHassan Pooya
Edited bySohrab Khosravi
Ali Nahavandi
Music byDilshaad Shabbir Shaikh
Distributed byPen N Camera International
Release dates
  • 9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) (Iran)
  • 23 March 2018 (2018-03-23) (India)
Running time
110 minutes (in Iran)
120 minutes (in India)
CountriesIran
India
LanguagesPersian
English
Budget$2 million[1]
Box office$3.9 million (Iran)[2]

Salaam Mumbai (known as Hello Mumbai; Persian: سلام بمبئی) is a 2016 Iranian-Indian drama film directed by Ghorban Mohammadpour.[3][4][5] The film stars Iranian actor Mohammad Reza Golzar and Indian actress Dia Mirza in the leading roles. The film features dialogues predominatly in Persian and English with Hindi songs. The film was also dubbed in Hindi with the same name.

Cast

Reception

Frahnaz Yousefi from the Islamic Azad University Zahedan, wrote, "it should be mentioned that in spite of having many defects three reasonsfor the movie's success are: the combination of famous actors and actress both from Iran and India, the dance and singing scenes and the third one is being the first conjoint movie after the Islamic Republic of Iran".[6]

Box office

In Iran, the film surpassed the opening record of Asghar Farhadi's Academy Award winning film, The Salesman (2016). Salaam Mumbai grossed 10 billion rials ($260,000) in two days, surpassing the previous record of The Salesman, which grossed the same amount in three days.[1] Salaam Mumbai's final gross in Iran was 146 billion rials ($3.9 million).[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "'Salaam Mumbai' Sets New Box Office Record in Iran". Financial Tribune. 4 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b "'Salaam Mumbai' Goes to India". Financial Tribune. 1 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Mohammad Reza Golzar learning Hindi for Indo-Iranian project with Dia Mirza". 13 March 2016.
  4. ^ "The shooting of 'Hello Mumbai', a joint Iran-Bollywood production, started in Mumbai, India".
  5. ^ ‘Hello Bombay’ shooting in February
  6. ^ https://tlhjournal.com/uploads/products/35.frahnaz-yousefi-article.pdf