Saare jahan se achha.....which could be? Other than a country, who never invades others, but give shelter to all……where there is freedom, the largest democracy….which attracts others for its riches, and when others take away their riches, earns it back….from riches to rags to riches…..
And where there is the bond of love….understanding, sacrifice and adjustments, value……family value……hope its triumph increase and the future generation trying to imitate the west, don’t loose the taste of it….
Undoubtedly every coin has two sides, and may be the worst phase, of the worst side in the best possible way of showcasing the bad side was shown in the movie…., I did not find something very extraordinary in the film Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle…Most of what has been shown was true once upon a time, and I had seen most of the things in reality... Had this film been made by an Indian director, it would’ve been trashed. But now it is here wearing Emperors New Clothes. There are better films no doubt..
Movie fans flocked to Hollywood on Sunday 22nd February 2009, to watch the stars parade up the red carpet for the Oscars, the world's top film awards at Kodak Theater where the 81st Academy Awards were held and with rags-to-riches romance "Slumdog Millionaire" expected to win the honor for best movie, and it walked away with 8 Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Score and Song. …
When the West wanted Indians to embrace them and their companies to come to India and capture the lucrative markets, suddenly we had all the Indian women, some very beautiful and some not necessarily so, winning all the Miss Universe and Miss Worlds. Today, they are in a crisis and India is looking unstoppable despite its slums and poverty, and they are losing their businesses to us. Is it the time to paint India as the Slumdog Millionaire?? It might be just a coincidence and nothing intentional...whatever, I dont know..
Actually I wanted to know why was the Screenwriter award given to Simon Beaufoy who wrote Slumdog Millionaire, when it is based on the Boeke Prize winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize nominated novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup , and I wanted to know the difference between the two:
-I realized movie is only based on the novel, and it is not the novel. There are many differences like:
-The character of Jamal is named 'Ram Mohammad Thomas'.
-Unlike the movie, Ram does not have a biological brother, but Salim is instead his best friend in the novel
-Ram is adopted by a Christian priest as a youth, which is where he learns English, and then is nearly molested by a visiting priest. The priest scenes were not included in the script for the movie,
-Latika is not his childhood friend in the book but rather a prostitute named Nita that Ram falls in love with in a brothel when he's 18.
-The Bombay Hindu-Muslim riots played no role in the book.
For the movie:
Junk pickers, the slums and the life….there including the open air lavatories, unhygienic condition…, riots, underworld, prostitution, brothels, child labour, begging, blinding and maiming of kids to make them into ‘better beggars’, petty peddlers, traffic jams, irresponsible call centre executives…are all portrayed.
The way kid Jamal runs for the autograph, show how crazy people here are, and its really pathetic.
Life’s difficulty teaches you…the answers…Difficulties of poverty, and the life of an orphan….having asked only the questions to which one could give correct answer…it really do happen sometime, and what is it called other than destiny!!! You know what is on a 100$ but not what is on a Rupees 1000 note. You know darshan Do bhagvan, is by Surdas…but .don’t know what is written on the three headed lion….
Destiny takes you places, from the slums of mumbai, to the Taj in Agra..to a chaiwala in a BPO and to being a millionaire…Never trust anyone….but yourself…that’s when he does not answer ‘B’ to the question on cricketer, and thinking the person feeding to be a saint…
Finding true love of 90 million people time and again, shows that things are possible….
Brother Salim’s doings and dying I could not interpret it!!
We actually have a notion that success eludes the poor and is only for the mighty & the rich section of our society..and this movie is for those…if a rich man wins the game of a millionaire, nobody would question him, but when it is a poor boy, there is interrogation even from the police!!.Yes slumdogs too can become a millionaire….Thanks for all those who made it big…..
It is Destiny, and destiny it is written…… Read more of it here...
And courtesy Prajoosh, I could see this movie...
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