Children of the streets, Indian-style. Pretty tough as compared with what we usually see from that country -- namely, Satyajit Ray -- though it's no Los Olvidados by a long shot. It's even a short shot from a Pixote. Directed by documentarist Mira Nair -- her first fiction film -- with an informed eye for place and for way of life. But the amateur status of a lot of the actors is not well concealed, and some of the lost-soul closeups are gruesomely sentimental. With Shafiq Syed, Sarfuddin Qurrassi, and Raghubir Yadav. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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