Some Dog Millionare
Last weekend I saw the much hyped Slumdog Millionare. When I first heard about this movie making waves around the world, I thought this is the case where you show the world what they want to see about India and hence they like it. Later, I was told the movie unveils the story of a slum boy and exactly why he knew answers of all those questions in the game show. I thought it might be an interesting watch (and I always liked Anil Kapoor).It was not as good as I had ended up expecting it to be.
Best Part: When they show how the muslim guy Jamal knew what Ram holds in his right hand.
Worst Part: When a driver beats up Jamal and he tells the American couple that this is real India, and they give him a $100 note and show real America. If that is real America, that explains the economic crisis.
Stupid Part: The three musketeers from the slum conversing in fluent English with an American accent. And the mobsters were not far behind (with an occasional desi mention of the mother of the second person). The policemen too sounded quite educated.
I don't know whether I should be happy that a movie that talks about India and has contributions by artists from here is so highly acclaimed, or dissappointed that there are numerous far better movies made here that do not get noticed just because they don't show the real India.
I am sure even Rahman would agree that he has had better songs under his belt than the ones that got him nominations at Oscars.
posted by kaushal @ 11:17 AM
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