Cinemax: Cinemax Reel Life

SALIM BABA

Premieres Wednesday, August 20 at 8pm

In a country with the largest film industry in the world, Salim Muhammad has operated a one-man cinema for over 40 years. This Oscar®-nominated documentary short follows this man who carts around a 100-year-old movie projector through the streets and alleys of North Kolkata, India, showing edited scraps of Bollywood films to excited neighborhood children.

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