These are the days when you must have slumdog millionaire somewhere in your blog...ur blog gets a boost...char chand lag jate hain....:).....its a fashion statement to talk about this movie....as happens with most of the topics-in-vogue...you can love it or hate it...but you can't ignore it...everybody is talking about it...the director...actors.....critics...media...common people...ex-fiancees are coming out of nowhere....everybody is joining the bandwagon...so you see i had no option but to write about 'slumdog' :)
i saw this movie a long way back...when it wasn't in the headlines for the right reasons or the otherwise....thank god....i could watch it in peace..without any preconceived notions...without any bias...and i genuinely liked it....the theme, the way it was handled...the way the child actors performed...and the KBC angle to it...in fact one of the best moments of the film according to me..is when jamal is answering the last question...he has associated himself as one of the musketeers all his life....but strangely he didnt know name of the third musketeer when it really matters...and he smiles knowing full well he doesnt know the answer...i just loved that moment...the look on his face....
to be frank...i didnt think about this possible exploitation of poverty in india for commercial purposes...portraying India as slum country...i just watched it like any other hindi movie....i dont know how much importance we should give to Oscars....but i guess i need to see it once again to reconfirm i really loved the movie....
Hell, yeah! Very true about the 'fashion statement' thing it has become..and it's just going on and on :P
ReplyDeleteNo wonder I stayed away from it on my blog. Was too tired of talking about it in the real world! Haha.
Oh yeah..I loved that scene..the last answer one! And totally agree with u on the last para..I think slums are a part of India..and danny chose that part to make a movie on. So what? We should accept it..it's there..isn't it?