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Shafiq Syed, 34, is driving his rickshaw with his younger son, Nadeem, 4, along the streets surrounding the poor neighbourhood in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 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.