Salaam Bombay! is a social drama. The movie follows the story of a young boy named Krishna (Shafiq Syed), who gets into trouble with his own brother. To take revenge, Krishna destroys his brother’s motorbike. His mother then warns him to only come back home, when he earns INR 500 for the repair of the bike. Krishna moves to the back alleys of Bombay, and finds himself in the middle of pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. How the young Krishna settles there and manages to cope with the odd situations forms the rest of the climax.