Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

I don't think the movie deserved 8 oscars, and definitely not the Best Film. But then that's the jury's decision. While the movie does reflect on the realities gripping Mumbai and India, it's more a commercialization of the reality for the sake of making money out of it. As someone put it, there's too much happening in life of one person, which is unconvincing. Then there's this case of twisting reality. C'mon : anyone who has ever seen an episode of Who wants to be a millionaire or Kaun Banega Crorepati knows that its not telecast live ! See : commercialization again and the need to put in something gripping. The excessive use of English took the movie further away from reality. You don't expect Slum kids to speak english! The case of Apocalypo comes to my mind. I loved the movie, simply because it tried to capture the mayan civilisation the way they were, including the language. 

Coming back to SM, for me, its just another commercial Bollywood movie. I don't find it to be something out of the world or something that is revolutionary. This is just a case of a movie getting lucky. The actors were quite mediocre except for the kids who were the real stars. It was just another average english 'british' movie made with the aim of catapulting on the western curiosity for the poorer side of India. 

However, I must mention that music definitely was good: but then, with Rahman comes quality and trust of millions. He doesn't usually go wrong and I am glad that he won the oscars.