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Shafiq Syed, 34, is helping his wife preparing tea in their home kitchen inside a poor neighbourhood of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. 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.