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Behind the beautiful forevers

Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India.
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Behind the beautiful forevers

[life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
2014
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.

Behind the beautiful forevers

2012
Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India.

Bombay talkie

1994
Sabah, a young American woman, returns to India on a search for her identity and heritage, while her aging Bombay movie-star uncle and his wife look for their gay son in the underground scenes of London and New York.

Love and longing in Bombay

stories
1997
A collection of five stories about quests driven by love and longing, as told by civil servant Subraminiam to his cronies at the Fisherman's Rest bar in modern-day Bombay.

Baumgartner's Bombay

2000
Hugo, in retirement in a Bombay flat with memories and stray cats, befriends a German boy who becomes the instrument of the fate Hugo has fled fortify years.
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