Slums and Dogs

[sukush]

I've seen the movie. Felt uncomfortable throughout the movie as...reason: it portrays my country as something negative on the world platform. What surprises me is intellectuals talk about all kinds of things, and most commonly whether the things in movie are true or not.
My point is: if bad things shown in movie are not true, that's good. If they are let's finish the conversation quickly on the "problem definition" and move to "solution". It's all about profits. The movie is not made to make money and run development projects in India, I'm convinced after reviewing the movie, there are couple of things intentionally put to make India look bad/become controversial to become popular and fill pockets.
In terms of viewpoint on movie. I agree with the above quote: it's a Hollywood product for Hollywood. It was not made for Indians.
What surprises me and makes me sad is: too many of us have lost the will to stand up for the country. and task for intellectuals is: so many of us don't even know, why we should be proud of being Indian?

 

[sidchhikara]

...I remember reading the first few posts of this thread when it was first put out- wanted to add my two cents then, as I had very much enjoyed the views presented here and was dying to represent and share my own... and then.... for some reason- did not post anything.

Well, for one thing I had not watched the movie at that point, and even though had exhausted my reading on it from the different sections of the published material all around the place, etc. I still thought it would be quite unfair for any comments in vaccum, regardless of them being pro or against it; that is TILL I saw it...

But NOW I feel that anything that I add is probably already all here and don't need to sound monotonous and/or harping on the same issues;
But having said that I would rather go with what a certain Mr. Abhishek Bachchan said at the recent 13th Wharton India Economic Forum in Philadelphia; something that kind of sums it for me.... (and trust me- he would be the last person on any topic that I would hope to get even two cents worth of words right in one sentence , UNLESS of course if it has got to do anything with his famous last name or the last name that is 'Rai') ....
BUT like I mentioned before; trust me folks, this- has been surprisingly quite the right summation:

He said..."The Chinese and the Indian film industries are huge, but the most visible and audible platforms in the world is one of English. Until you make a film in that language, you are not going to fit in the rest of the world. For example, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has an Indian subject but is made in English. (Had it been made in Hindi, say, by Inder Kumar, I do not think it would have as many viewers.)
"At the end of the day, 'Slumdog Millionaire’ was a Hollywood product for Hollywood. It was not made for Indians," Abhishek said... Period!

Amen!

That is true ... is meant for western audiences.

I wonder if Amar Singh wrote that speech for AB .... Bollywood has its share of creeps and weirdos. Everyone in bollywood thinks they could've made a better movie ..... maybe they could've. But I am not sure if it would've had AB in it...... he was busy shooting for Dostana or Delhi 6 .... since he only associates with such fine films.

This show of indignance from bollywood is getting old. They produce nothing but crap .. except a few good ones in between.