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Shafiq Syed, 34, is smiling at the image of his deceased father inside his mother's home in the poor Bangalore neighbourhood where he now lives with his family. Shaifq has been the main character of the Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay, but after the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he became a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.

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Shafiq Syed, 34, is smiling at the image of his deceased father inside his mother's home in the poor Bangalore neighbourhood where he now lives with his family. Shaifq has been the main character of the Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay, but after the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he became a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.