Salaam Bombay! (Greetings to Bombay!, Hindi; 1988) Story, Direction and Production: Mira Nair My partner in crime, Eskay and I often argue about the presence of poverty and the push it gives to a person to succeed in life. I quote the numerous examples of rag-to-riches stories and the hardships in life being a driving force to accomplishments. Eskay politely disagrees. He insists that the success stories are just the tip of an iceberg. Beneath the majestic free-floating iceberg is 89% that did not quite make it to the surface, submerged beneath the ocean. For every Ambani that makes it big, many failure stories remain buried in the annals of time. These disappointments are often forgotten. They are seen around but not observed. If we were to approach them, they would each have tall tales of dreams, hard work, near misses and twists of fate. We, the abled bodies, often condescendingly decree that we all deserve the life we lead. We are all given the same footing, but some choose not to ...
It is all Mimesis