Media depiction Dharavi has been depicted in a number of Hindi films produced by the Mumbai film industry . These include Salim-Javed films such as Deewaar (1975), Mira Nair 's Salaam Bombay! (1988) where several child actors were from the Dharavi slum, Vidhu Vinod Chopra 's Parinda (1989), Sudhir Mishra 's