Lal Salam

Lal Salam (लाल सलाम, ; "Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The phrase is a compound of lāl, meaning "red" in Hindustani, and salām, meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phrase as-salāmu ʿalaykum, a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you".

In popular culture

 * Lal Salam (1990 film) is a film in the Malayalam language based in 1990 India, about the lives of three communists in Kerala, South India.
 * Lal Salaam (2002 film), a Bollywood musical action drama film
 * Lal Salaam (2024 film), a Tamil film