Through a friend of hers, he sends Shaila a letter and a ticket for her to travel to Bombay. Upset with rejection from both families, Shekhar returns to Bombay. Shekhar reveals his interest to his father, who becomes angry, meets Basheer and gets into an abusive argument with him. Basheer refuses, citing difference in religions. Shekhar meets Shaila's father Basheer and says he wants to marry Shaila.

Initially shy, Shaila seeks to distance herself from Shekhar, but after frequent run-ins, and days of pursuit, Shaila begins to like Shekhar. On one of his return trips, he notices Shaila Banu, a Muslim schoolgirl in the village and falls in love with her.

A journalism student studying in Bombay, Shekhar visits home to be with his family. Starting in 1985, Shekhar is the son of an orthodox Hindu Narayana Pillai living in a coastal village in Tamil Nadu. The film was ranked among the top 20 Indian films in the British Film Institute's rankings. In July 2005, a book on the film by Lalitha Gopalan was published by BFI Modern Classics, looking at the film's production, the several issues it covered, and its impact upon release in India and abroad. Two homemade bombs were thrown at the house of Director Mani Ratnam, who had to be hospitalized with shrapnel injuries. The film was banned in Singapore and Malaysia upon release. However, the film caused considerable controversy upon release in India and abroad for its depiction of inter-religious relations between a Muslim woman and a Hindu man. Rahman his fourth consecutive Filmfare Best Music Director Award (Tamil), and is considered one of the greatest Indian soundtracks of all time.

The film was dubbed in Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam with the same title.Įventually becoming one of the highest-grossing films of Tamil cinema, the film was well-received both critically and commercially, and it was screened at many international film festivals including the Philadelphia Film Festival in 1996 where it was an audience favourite. It is the second installment in Mani Ratnam's Trilogy of films that depict human relationships against a background of Indian politics, including Roja (1992) and Dil Se. The film tells the story of an inter-religious family in Bombay before and during the Bombay riots, which took place between December 1992 and January 1993 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid led to religious tensions between Hindu and Muslim communities. Bombay is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swami and Manisha Koirala in the lead.

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