The film Slumdog Millionaire doesn't have the sincerity and the straightforwardness of a "Salaam Bombay" or the films like "City of Joy" nor does this perfectly disguised tale have the cultural integrity or the firm rootedness of the above mentioned scripts. The real Slumdogs are the producers and the promoters of this film who are stashing in millions worldwide.
It is really the xenophobia......its a well cinematographed film.....but it lacks soul. The film is a modern version of the fucking West's view of India in general, and United Fucking States of America in particular. Its a well-made caricature of our mother country. The entire narration is a germination of a terribly sadistic and complex(!!) mind with the only aim of satisfying the western idea of India.
When the fucking USA wanted Indians to embrace them warmly and their companies and by extension their businesses all the Indian women who contested the global beauty contestants won and now when the the mother fucking western world is in a worst crisis, losing their businesses and jobs to Indians; this is a well-timed "flick" to showcase India as a land of open air toilets, slums, communal riots, arson, corruption, child labor and every possible negative thing that the mindless hypo critic West can think of and paint our mother country as a "Slum dog" but whereas the real DOGS are the masters in the Western world or more sarcastically referred to, by themselves as the First world..........
The sound track by the talented musician A.R. Rehman and the performance of the child actors who were picked up in the slums of the Mumbai in and around Victoria Terminus, who are by far grossly underpayed by any yardstick (500 pounds) are the only things which live up to the hype.
We have better mainstream films than this sadistic piece of chicken shit which is endorsed (read it directed) by a protagonist called Boyle, and the actors who cant even utter some hindi words like their mother tongue.
Just turn on to some of our best made mainstream Hindi film industry (not bollywood) blockbusters for a better entertainment than watch-ing this Idiotic piece of crap.
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hey, this was the thing went through my head too but in defense to what the movie says it still woke us up, it still made a stir... it showed HOPE amongst all this chaos and dirt. Boyle's trainspotting shows the same of a western country... so its not just the exoticising thing ...
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