Indian mania over British film about mumbai -Slumdog !

It is a pity that what inspired Danny Boyle(a british guy) to make a move is the very same thing that millions of mumbaikers including a lot of mumbaiker filmmakers watch and notice each day.Yet, no indian had it in them to make a movie on the slumdwellers. Danny Boyle on his visits to mumbai saw and was mesmerized by the optimism of the slumdwellers which belied the utter poverty they lived in.He made a movie.He made it well. It was very professionally and artistically done.It was his vision.
I mean , It is ridiculous when I see every Indian jumping up and down,all ecstatic, when a british movie wins the oscar . What exactly are they getting ecstatic about? The poverty of mumbai ? or the movie making genius of Boyle? If boyle is a great filmmaker, so be it, he is..but why are indians jumping up and down about it?
Movie makers in India lack vision or sincerity or perfection.They make cheap shoddy spin offs of hollywood themes that don't fit in the Indian soceital scheme of things at all. That is why classy works of art seldom get made in India.
The last time i saw a well made indian movie on a very indian theme was years ago. speaking of which i am yet to watch Nandita Das' directorial venture, which she lovingly named firaaq , if am right.I hope that all these stupid cable tv channels start showcasing these wonderful movies that indians make about India. I want to watch Firaaq . If these stupid news channels can go on and on about the oscars over and over , like there is no tommorow I am pretty sure they can do all sensible indians a favor and give equal amount of media coverage for these beautiful movies by indians like this one by Nandita das.
We Indians have no real appreciation for anything but we will go maniacal about anything remotely connected to india if some foreigner recongnizes it or someone else gives an award. Why? because we don't trust our own likes and dislikes.We refuse to have real likes and dislikes. We depend on someone else to dictate to us as to what we must like or dislike.
Rehman said something very interesting while accepting the award though, He said and I quote: " At each point of my life i had the option of choosing between love and hate.I chose love and I am here today" .I think that is a great point to all the religious extremists in our country who waste time preaching their own religions to others .. I say ,"Stop preaching , start living."
For now, I have been wanting to watch Firaaq and Smile pinki on tv.. No luck..If someone from the media is reading this, Please trust the Indian audience.We are must smarter than you guys conveniently want to brand us.Most of us are raving for greatly made highly authentic Indian movies. Please humor us with more programs that are deeply indian and deeply rooted and progressive too. I would like to think that there is much much more to indian roots than saas_bahu petty family fights(mother-in-law _daughter_in_law feuds) and NO, people in towns and villages don't like them either. People in lil towns of India are eager to watch sensible stuff.

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'Slumdog Millionaire' is a british Director's movie but Everyone wants a piece of the fame cake

First off, 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a well made movie(apparently) judging from all the awards and reviews...BUT, IT IS NOT A BOMBAY FILMINDUSTRY MOVIE(I try not using the word Bollywood)..This is a british movie.This movie was directed by a British Director.Sure there were Indian assistant director/s and an indian/kenyanbritishindian cast(hey, the story is of indian people, do you want caucasians playing mumbaikars,they had to hire an indian cast) and An India born Music director(Rehman btw mostly lives in London these days, it appears)..anyways....yeah btw, some idiot went ahead and started a campaign wanting to get the indian subdirector the title of codirector till ofcourse the lady had to intervene and make him stop.. hmmm....Seriously..Please do ask permission before starting campaigns esp. if it involves another person .I digress to the point of glory..let me get back to the topic on hand.

The problem with Indians is that they will never ever ever ever encourage originality or something that they are not already used to .If slumdog millionaire would have depended on India to get produced, it would never have seen the light of day, nor would it have been made tastefully that way it turned out eventually.Here again , I am not here to discredit authentic Indian film makers(read:non commercial pune film institute movies, read old bengali movies, read local filmmakers that make great movies which never see anything other than a filmfestival screening), but most commercial indian movies lack depth and are perverse and depraved on many many levels with depraved views on the concept of love and sexuality and women and family and everything else.

So yeah, coming back to everyone in india constantly taking credit for this movie, It irks me very much that indians come running to associate themselves with anything that becomes a success that is remotely connected to india in some way.They start hallucinating that the success happenned because of something all the indians combinedly put a ton of hardwork in producing.

Indians never would encourage their women to do anything other than something that is immediately beneficial to the male members of the family(Now again, not all of them but the general trend is of selfish pettiness amongst the male population) and yet when kalpana chawla goes to space, everyone wants a piece of the fame cake. The male to female ratio is so atrocious in punjab, makes me want to puke at the petty small thinking of those families there.But that is a blog for another day.

Seriously, get over it. It is a well made movie, A british director made it..yes Rehman's music is great, but well, even if Rehman had been British , it would have been just as great.NM...So stop wanting a piece of the fame cake..just appreciate a good movie and chill, will ya?

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Amitabh,SRK whine over Slumdog Millionaire laurels

Okay, here is what I think.I think all the silly lil Indian Film Industry actors,(esp the ones that have made it big primarily due to plotless, senseless movies revolving around a storyline that keeps the aching Indian public in Denial.) are bitter over the overwhelming recognition of this movie , SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by the international Award juries..

Amitabh Bachchan esp, this old man, till not very long ago was singing to kimmi katkar(I hope I got that name right) as the mail male lead(even when he started having creaky knee joints and greying hair) ..He was singing to her ,"jhumma chumma de de" which essentially trasnslates roughly into " on my tart, give me a smooch".I think why this creepy lil scene of a romantic pairing of a 40 something man and a 19 something girl appeals to the India public is because India is filled with 40 year old perverted men who fantasize about molesting virgins, that is why..They see these oldies romantically jiggling around with young things and something inside of these men gets satisfied.that is why..Anyways===

And why exactly is 'Sholey' a masterpiece? It is just yet another movie with loud dialogues, and exagerrated actor expressions..Yet , the mindless chauvanistic males from north India(insert, aka raja chouwdary of the Big boss phenomenon) look to these movies( insert: Highly Impractical, highly chauvinistic, excessively loud and pathetically plotless and much far from reality in the Indian context, sometimes foolish remakes from English movie hits which don't fit in the Indian context) for their next denial session..Just So that they can sit there and watch this movie along with other letchering hormone laden men at the theatre and for a moment forget about the dysfunctional family of his own.

Now these Indian so called 'stars', are perfectly aware that their main aim here is to make money by riding on the need for denial.. So be it..They say stupid things on screen , jump around , dance around and gyrate with all that chest thumping motions with starlets much much younger than them( as if there is a dearth of young males in this country) and then they get paid tons of money..done.. I mean if the India public decides to make us stars ,, why not? ok, I agree..done.

NOW TAKE THAT MONEY AND SHUT UP , RIGHT?

DID YOU KNOW THAT AMITABH BLOGS BECAUSE HE GOT PAID BY RELIANCE A WHOPPING 126 MILLIONS JUST TO BLOG EVERYDAY? And the foolish country bumpkins now go and give that website whopping number of hits, with the silly little notion that this old man just writes for them..He writes partly for the moolah, people, get it ..I thoroughly boycott bigadda dot com for that very reason, though, i like reliance in so many other ways for the way they made the cellphone something even villager could afford and use..Now, that is a blog for another day.I am gonna sit and praise the shit of reliance for their cellphone success but for not, they are getting kicked in the butt for the greed that is bigadda dot com. exp amitabh bacchan blog.

coming back to Amitabh Bacchan criticizing that people try and make movies showcasing India's poverty and that oscar is not the highest award.. well, dude, snap out of your own glory , will ya?

I think, the old man is just bitter that he never got to act in the movie.. He is angry that though he had acting potentia l sadly no movie maker decided to use tha t potential.Instead , all he got to do was all those gun weilding VIJAY ROLES , over and over. ( I think he had and has great acting potential and the only movie i saw him do some great acting is in that movie where he plays this role of this palm toddy tapper who makes jaggery out of it--NOW, THAT WAS ONE ORIGINAL MOVIE).

SRK, finally also has joined the ranks of aging men,now using Deepika padukone as his "Letcher bait"in his movie..Yet another 40 s0mething guy shameless acting with a beautiful girl(not woman yet) who prolly got out of menarche a few years ago as her romantic pair..whoa.

SRK and Amitabh, Can you guys stop criticizing this movie will ya?

These oldies now sit and criticize that it is so bad to potray india's poverty in movies and India is not all about poverty..yeah it is not all about poverty , It is also about corruption, ram sena, prostitution and female infanticide..yay !

Dude, this movie is not a documentary..It is a book adaptation.A book of ficition.. as in ,, this it is not a true incident documentary.. do they even get that? It has been made from a book that was written by an Indian..So stop blaming outsiders for always potraying India's poverty.

But honestly , even if someone claimed that this movie is a documentary, well, I agree, it does justice..

THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN MUMBAI IN THAT KIND OF ABJECT POVERTY AND YES, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE DOES JUSTICE IN REPRESENTING THAT POVERTY.

Yes, I am an Indian and i agree that the majority of Indians are poor -farmers kill themselves each year when their crop fails..yes, this is how the MAJORITY LIVES..So, yes, the movie tells the truth in some ways.

But having said, we as Indians have a very varied genetic pool and tons of potential and let us go and tap that potential..But that yet again is another blog entry.

I also think that Amitabh is a little pissed that he got potrayed by Anil kapoor in the movie instead of perhaps he himself potraying himself--that way he could have stood around for the award ceremony photos all smiling and such..I think that is what he is angry.

It is pathetic though, that we as indians see what the director of that movie saw each day..But none of us were inspired enough to make a movie about it..primarily because we are a whole big country living in denial, we want to talk about movies where all they say is things like"gaadi, bangla,rupaya paisa" (cars,bungalow-mansion,money) .Hmmmmmmm......

Amitabh then goes around saying that oscar is not the highest award possible..duh.. what is ? I do agree that national awards in india does a good job of picking great movies..but , then no one bothers to showcase these lovely indiiian movies anywhere except at the film festivals.I for one and many of my friends try hard to find a way to watch all these wonderful indian movies ..hard luck, never get shown on tv.. I think, there are a lot more people in india esp from small towns and villagers who are in a position to understand and appreciate well made indian movies that barely get exposure besides the film festivals.I would highly appreciate if something is done about this , and we get to see more and more of those national award winners.

Speaking of which, Indias Entry to the oscars is this documentary called SMILE PINKY.This is a documentary mind you about the social ostracism associated with cleft palate in the villages.Now , now, I am dying hard to watch this movie, but all we are talking about is slumdog millionaire..that is what we all are..gosh

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so yeah.. whatever.