to start with,the film getting awards as part of the bigger game plan by the west - to find the colossal indian market to consume another product - a bankrupt hollywood.just as sushmitas and ashwariyas suddenly got universe and world awards to make every indian woman buy revlons,loreals,channels;it's a marketing strategy to give employment to hollywood on a bigger scale. if boyle had not directed the film,it would have got zilch.he has given the west what moves them to tears.very clever but poor artistic integrity. there is enough of it in indian cinema in the last seven decades,and perhaps better content and depiction.slumdog is an average film with average music , below average lyrics and a thin slice of indian poverty.it misses the complete specturm. and finally are oscars any judge of the world art ? should they be give every year,because they have to be given ? art is essentially the reflection of society with man in essence,the protaganist. i am afraid the developed elite will never understand the poorly developed society and it can at best be shocked by it's sub-human status and be therefore 'entertained'! slumdog lacks soul,an organic wholeness. rajiv chandoke
