Slumdug millionaire is normal bollywood masala movie, though the plot and screenplay is too good,casting and acting is good, one would not be comfortable in scenes where Irfaan talks to saurabh shukla in English. In which police station, anywhere in india an inspector and constable talks in English?Does not look like artificial?this is what they call marketing technique. if the movie was made in hindi, it could be eligible only in one category-foreign language. Mel Gibson did that in Passion of Christ- while the whole movie is in Aramic with english subtitles. The scene where they boy(jamal malik) jumps into the open toilet & with full of shit he comes to meet Bachan. Tell me onething- Are indians so fanatic about movie stars?i don't think so. Not even Indian-no one in this world will dare to do this kind of act. Being a nice human being bachan(in the movie) should have asked to wash the kid first rather than signing an autograph and if not for Danny Boyle, it it has been done by entire bollywood or any indian team, they would have not even shown any interest. i believe its the same strategy how sushmitha and aishwarya won world beauty titles. US wants to enter India in a large scale manner(already Warner brother are here) and they see lot of potential and money in Indian market. Also they are in global economic meltdown which is affecting their movies too. That is the reason for 8/9 oscars for SM?
Re: Marketing again
by indiansentinel on Feb 24, 2009 12:26 AM Permalink
Sharavan, you are bang on target! Most of us idiotic indians are unable to see the evil intentions of the western world to confer these awards on a so called 'indian' cinema. Even the award confered on ARR was not for the quality of his work, but happened as a part of the bigger plot to award SM for ulterior motives.
Re: Marketing again
by Bhaarat Darshan on Feb 23, 2009 10:30 PM Permalink
It is the marketing strategy that once again the gullible Indians have been entrapped! It is indeed unfortunate that the dog of a slunm is being adored while the cow is being slaughtered! A.R.Rahman is not a music director at all.He is a musician only.Since the number of English medium schools have increased leaps & bounds in the last twenty years so the taste, as Lord Machaley had predicted, has changed in India.Moreover the west understands such shallow notes only so it went crazy. If A.R.Rahman is a music director then what are Shankar-Jaykishan,Laxmikant-Pyarelal,Madanmohan,Naushad,S.D.Barman,Roushan,Ravi,O.P.Naiyyar,Kalyanji-Anandji,Hemant Kumar,Salil Choudhury etc.? On technical side,yes,Oscar stands for a grade but regarding music it can not be the yardstick !
Re: Re: Marketing again
by Shravanuniversan on Feb 23, 2009 10:51 PM Permalink
you have left Ilayaraja in the list..the difference between all above said and Rahman is - They used native indian musical instruments and did not incline to Western.. but rahaman took a road which was less travelled..he gave importance to chorus, words without any meaning but catchy, used all the electronic instruments he had-which is followed same in Western music..thats why he is able to achieve the oscars in just 17 years. This is his pinnacle..he do not have anything to prove to anyone though
