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MOVIE REVIEW: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Starring: Dev Patel, Irrfan Khan, Anil Kapoor, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto
Director: Danny Boyle
Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy
Producer: Christian Colson
Composer: A.R. Rahman
It has been a few months now, that Slumdog Millionaire caught the fancy of the viewers around the world and then the award ceremonies, and Oscars followed. Now that all the noise is tapering off, let us take a closer look at the movie and the idea around it.  Slumdog Millionaire
A mild “what the @#$%” did escape my lips when I saw this movie, and the words of that old cricket commentator, describing a bowler’s failed appeal “Is (film) mein utsah jyada tha, viswas kam”; (More benign enthusiasm, less conviction) rang in my ears while I left the theater. An observant friend fumed, “Let’s say I made a movie about the US where an African-American boy born in the hood, has his mother sell him to a pedophile pop icon, after which he gets molested by a priest from his church, following which he goes and joins the Al Qaeeda. Then he is arrested and sodomized by a policeman with a rod, after which he is attacked by a gang of illegal immigrants, and then uses these life experiences to win “Beauty and The Geek”. How would that sound?”
Slumdog, sadly, is a
glamorous rendition of poverty porn. And poverty porn is concomitant with pedophilia,
child-abuse, rape, blinded children forced into begging and of course, a lot of
feces.
Last update : 08-03-2009 23:32
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