Who contests the fact that the film was good? I have to say is the film was fantastic.
Wonderful story, screenplay, acting and direction. How else would have the film bagged the globes and would have raked in such amount of money at the box office?
I’m not aiming to write a full page review on the film, but what struck me most were the themes that were handled in the movie.
If u ask me for the plot synopsis, it is just another rag to riches story with a cleverly sewed in love story. After the movie bagged awards at the globes, all the Indian channels were abuzz with the notion that an Indian film won the globes. After the Mumbai terrorist tragedies they were in pursuit of breaking news and they got it. At least we should open our minds to the fact that this film is a western made movie directed by an English and his crew which enacted a story with an Indian back ground which of course required the use of Indian actors and an Indian musician who could capture the westernized Indian music. More than that for whatever reasons it may be, it took an English man to showcase what the real India is all about, apart from the glistening picture of a middle and upper middle class world portrayed in the predominantly upper class media.
The truths in India like child abuse, religious persecution, sexual atrocities towards women, poverty, gangsters and their murky underworld, atrocities and corruption, social and class discrimination were quite boldly taken up by Danny Boyle which the native film producers and directors always avoided. Even if they were taken up by an Indians they dint see much light, thanks to a wonderful director and his crew this film broke all the social barriers and was an instant success. Life in the slums were quite brilliantly captured by Boyle, the rampant poverty and the social discrimination. The class discrimination is so rampant that even in the tv show, the host (Anil Kapoor) taunts the slum dog with chaiwallah and it is the same upper class superiority that led him to beleive that his fool proof show is being cheated by this slumwallah.
And now, with all the media hype surrounding the film, Amitabh Bachan has come out into the open, criticing the movie, you may not beleive it, for accurately picturizing the facts. He is saying it will tarnish the image of India. Image, the vanity of the rich. I dont have any more to say to those who attracts the curious western clout to the Indian pelvic dance and sleeps in the imaginary glory of the donkey carrying the idol.
I don’t have any illusionary notions that this film is going to change India or the perceptions about it, but we require more and more people like Boyle, to come up with more socially relevant themes and pursue someone to take some actions to bring about a better India.
Wonderful story, screenplay, acting and direction. How else would have the film bagged the globes and would have raked in such amount of money at the box office?
I’m not aiming to write a full page review on the film, but what struck me most were the themes that were handled in the movie.
If u ask me for the plot synopsis, it is just another rag to riches story with a cleverly sewed in love story. After the movie bagged awards at the globes, all the Indian channels were abuzz with the notion that an Indian film won the globes. After the Mumbai terrorist tragedies they were in pursuit of breaking news and they got it. At least we should open our minds to the fact that this film is a western made movie directed by an English and his crew which enacted a story with an Indian back ground which of course required the use of Indian actors and an Indian musician who could capture the westernized Indian music. More than that for whatever reasons it may be, it took an English man to showcase what the real India is all about, apart from the glistening picture of a middle and upper middle class world portrayed in the predominantly upper class media.
The truths in India like child abuse, religious persecution, sexual atrocities towards women, poverty, gangsters and their murky underworld, atrocities and corruption, social and class discrimination were quite boldly taken up by Danny Boyle which the native film producers and directors always avoided. Even if they were taken up by an Indians they dint see much light, thanks to a wonderful director and his crew this film broke all the social barriers and was an instant success. Life in the slums were quite brilliantly captured by Boyle, the rampant poverty and the social discrimination. The class discrimination is so rampant that even in the tv show, the host (Anil Kapoor) taunts the slum dog with chaiwallah and it is the same upper class superiority that led him to beleive that his fool proof show is being cheated by this slumwallah.
And now, with all the media hype surrounding the film, Amitabh Bachan has come out into the open, criticing the movie, you may not beleive it, for accurately picturizing the facts. He is saying it will tarnish the image of India. Image, the vanity of the rich. I dont have any more to say to those who attracts the curious western clout to the Indian pelvic dance and sleeps in the imaginary glory of the donkey carrying the idol.
I don’t have any illusionary notions that this film is going to change India or the perceptions about it, but we require more and more people like Boyle, to come up with more socially relevant themes and pursue someone to take some actions to bring about a better India.
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