Wednesday, January 28, 2009

slumdog millionaire

Well I liked the movie,for the way it didn’t shy away from the truth.As to why other country’s don’t allow their under belly to be shown,one thing the movie makers might be shot or quartered or whatever…I think more than patriots politicians should have a problem,where is the development they promised?What’s puzzling is people suddenly objecting to the image of India that is portrayed. What’s with that? It is, a very realistic image of at least a part of India, and what are other Bollywood films about? Skimpily clad women dancing in the freezing snow and green hills - is that representative of India? I’m not sure I’d call it a love story as such. There is that romance angle, yes - and the reason he enters the competition is so his love finds him. But even then, I’d say the storyline is more about serendipity, and about Jamal’s life - which just happens to be one of poverty. His love happens to be just one aspect of his life, as does his brother, his polar opposite in almost every way. It’s wonderful how it’s all woven together into a very telling narrative.

We must not be so emotional that a firang has sneaked deep inside our garbage but the fault is ours who nurtured so long the filth around our lovely homes.well said. But why our gentlemen doesnot do something to remove the dirt than preferring to sweep under the carpet.


About people objecting to it, I think it is more to do with the shame they feel rather than anything else. In any case a movie director should have the freedom to depict whatever he wants, he has to tell it as he sees it. That is honesty. I think this film is an honest one in that sense.

Warm Regards to all my readers.

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