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
Re: shamedog millionaire !
by Tera Aashiq on Feb 24, 2009 12:43 AM Permalink
Excellent comment. I fully agree with you. When cosmetics companies needed India, they started giving miss world titles to indians and now oscars. Clearly this is a commercial ploy. This movie is a crap.
Re: shamedog millionaire !
by Guest on Feb 24, 2009 02:49 AM Permalink
this is just so ridiculous that we are amused by ourselves being called a slum-dog. I was listening an interview with the director of this movie on BBC, and he told that all the protests in India are just because their movie is getting famous and actually does not use dog in a derogatory sense. Would he then please tell the viewers, what does slum-dog actually mean and why at all is it there in the name? Just because it is made by a gora director about poor Indian people, it is getting so much popularity? Why was there not even a single nomination to Tare Jameen Par or Lagaan? Don't British have got extremely poor people living in their home country who are pathetically crazy about playing lotto and hoping to earn a jackpot some day. Why don't they make a movie on that theme. Rehman might have gotten Oscar, which he is very much capable of, but why now??
Re: shamedog millionaire !
by Raj on Feb 24, 2009 02:50 AM Permalink
this is just so ridiculous that we are amused by ourselves being called a slum-dog. I was listening an interview with the director of this movie, and he told that all the protests in India are just because their movie is getting famous and actually does not use dog in a derogatory sense. Would he then please tell the viewers, what does slum-dog actually mean and why at all is it there in the name? Just because it is made by a gora director about poor Indian people, it is getting so much popularity? Why was there not even a single nomination to Tar Jameen Par or Lagaan? Don't British have got extremely poor people living in their home country who are pathetically crazy about playing lotto and hoping to earn a jackpot some day. Why don't they make a movie on that theme. Rehman might have gotten Oscar, which he is very much capable of, but why now??
