Don't Cry for Salim, the Lame) is a 1989 Indian film directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, with Pavan Malhotra as lead.

Salim's younger brother Javed Pasha (who has been a hard-working student all his life) dies because of an electric shock.

His parents are keen to get his younger sister married to a proofreader of an Urdu newspaper named Aslam.

After watching a documentary film made on the communal riots of Bhiwandi, Salim is shaken from within.

On the day of his younger sister's engagement with Aslam, Salim is seen happily dancing with his friends.