SlumDog millionaire!!!
From the time the movie has released I haven't heard anything else but praise for the movie.A movies truly speaks out about itself, the way its been directed and the way the actors has performed their respective roles.
The much created hype about the movie is what convinced me to see the movie and trust me the time spent in watching the movie was worth it.
It very beautifully shows how Jamal[the main character] relates every situation that has happened in past and gives answer at the game show.
Ne ways iam not here today to give a movie review but to highlight a fact which happened today.Was just going through a new papers and I saw a person talkin crap about the movie.
Ok his exact words were "its a Disgrace to Mumbai" For few sec I thought the printing must have been goofed up and a wrong title would be given to the below matter but it was not the case.
Some how that person overlooked what the movie was based on and he started criticizing about how mumbai is not only about slums and how the movie was a disgrace to mumbai.
I am sure most on us would feel that the locations and the background was very apt to the story line unlike our very own Hindi main stream cinema where the hero heroins go to foreign locations to sing songs and blink of the eye they change clothes and move from one place to other
It made me infuriated.But deep down inside a cord struck me.I had read somewhere that in a survey it was found that most indian tend to highlight the -ve factors more than the positive.At that time it dint make sense to me.
But today when I read this it actually made sense,yes it is true that based on few examples i cant conclude that we think -ve.But if we look at the larger picture we wil find many people who give importance to -ve things.
As the movie name suggests Slumdog Millonaire,it is bound to have more contents about ideas and visuals near slums.Now really was that chap who wrote this comment in the news paper actually expecting that the movie would be shot in places like Colaba or bandra no rite??
Also I dont think a movie will bring disgrace to a city like mumbai.A City which speaks for itself doesnt really need any one else to talk good about it.
22 comments:
okay ws that person a critic (loser)??
if yes then no comments
and if he was a normal movie goer then he must have been a pessimist !!
what say now? the movie had rewarded an indian A.R.rehman, and he had given that prize to the entire india community.. what say now? between, no comments on the movie yet to see.
Hmm.. I was also thinking of watching the movie..!
@ peter : u bet that person was a big time loser
@ sharavan: yes i saw the award function and liked it when he thanks the whole of India for the award
@ abhinav: buddy u are missing something better watch it ASAP
Whoever said this was a pitiful loser! I mean I cant understand how a movie that has won acclaims over acclaims could be a disgrace! btw....I am yet to watch it, I certainly will
new template.. nice..
m nt reading ur post nw as i havent watched the movie.. m dying to watch it. heard its awesome. m still waiting for the direct link to dwnload movie
@ rakesh : I dont know what aspect that fellow was looking at to call it disgrace
@ Nidhi: u can go ahead and read the post as i have not given any details about the movie
i don't think its about being -ve as about not forgetting the bharat behind the india...but perspective differs
@ farah: :-)
that guy is another billionaire blogger who keeps a gun under his pillow when asleep these days.....i think he was pissed off because he was the central point of the shitty scene of the film..........lolzz........what say anna?.......
I love Mumbai...
for the vibrant life and straight-forwardness of its people...
Only been there for about two weeks in all :)
Nice to read that review also, Rakesh :)
wishes,
devika
@ shiva: true buddy you are absolutely rite
@ devika: mumbai is awesome ya...u need to spend more time to understand that mumbai is more than just hub for bollywood
well... i've read many comments about the movie and how it shows India just too bad. But then if it was there and if it is changing now, it is an achievement, isnt it? Whats disgraceful in reality?
Especially because the reality seems to be changing?
@ lena: to be frank i dont find ne thing which is not happining rite now.All that is shown in the movie is happining in real and i think instead of hidning the truth we mite as well work for its betterment.
This movie is surely a wonderful work. I hold firm the belief that there is more -ve to our life than we actually speak. Infact our problem is that we like to see only the +ve things, because of which we have higher sensitivity to reject the -ves. (incidentally this is also one of the points raised in the movie when Jamal asks Latika why do people what this KBC.)we are a terrible cultural broth.
We seek happiness by flying away into an illusion of happiness through/'created by' our movies. We cannot accept the truth. Dharavi is a real place in the real city where those reality- inspired shots of child molestaion, limb mutilation, alms seekers/child-beggers, cheats, thugs, murders have been taken.
Just that it, a little to far, uphold the indian belief in Fatalism, whereby it as though confirms to us all that " d:it is written"..(the option 'd' of the question "if u suddenly become a millionaire"). It appears that the author, Mr Vikas Swarup, upon whose novel this movie is based, has been an arts or a non-mathematics related student. Actually i feel that this fatalism promotion should not go little over with us Indians, while it is still acceptable to the west which has gone more 'sci-techocratic'. Movies like 'Forrest Gump', depict the invidual's good fate, whereas Slumdog depicts the fate(/the lot) of a whole nation.
But in the end it's still acceptable to me. I hope someday our movie-makers also roll into making flicks on 'probabilitis'(contrasted against Fate) as well.
hey mannu: i really dont think bollywood directors would make such a film.They just want to be in the main stream cinema
There's so much media hype surrounding that movie, anything firangi made attracts us.. I find Saalam bombay More interesting and celebrating the spirit of mumbai better than SDM...
@ seeker:salam bombay havent seen that so cant comment on it
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