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'''''Lal Salam''''' ({{translation}} "[[Red salute (disambiguation)|Red salute]]") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by [[communist]]s in [[South Asia]]. The word ''lal'' means "red" in [[Hindi language|Hindi]]; ''[[As-salamu alaykum|salam]]'' means "peace" in Arabic.<br />
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== In popular culture ==<br />
* ''[[Lal Salam (1990 film)]]'' is a film based in 1990 India in the Malayalam language. It is based on the lives of three actual communists in Kerala, South India: [[Mohanlal]] as Varghese Vaidyan, [[Murali (Malayalam actor)|Murali]] as T. V. Thomas, and Smt K. R. Gowri Amma.<br />
* [[Lal Salaam (2002 film)]], a Bollywood musical action drama film<br />
* [[Lal Salaam (upcoming film)|''Lal Salaam'' (upcoming film)]], directed by [[Aishwarya Rajinikanth]]<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Ali |first=Kamran Asdar |year=2015 |title=Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-940308-0}}<br />
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