Slumdog Millionaire!!

Here I am!!
Doing what I thought I wouldn't!
Adding yet another commentary on the (in)famous [sic. not sure whether to consider it famous or infamous :))] film released of late - Slumdog Millionaire!

I should say I am overwhelmed by the amount of talk going on around the film. It has been quite a few days after I watched it. But the continuing hoopla around it in the media makes me wonder if I watched it at all!! for, I felt it is just another entertaining movie, a well executed one on that.

It's interesting how people around the world seem to be taking it. The film has come to be the most discussed subject. It's what I found discussed at the lunch table at office last week. It is what my co-passenger on train chose to talk to me about while I traveled back to Bangalore last Monday. & now, to top it all, it is what A, my colleague from Canada starts our talk with on a tele-call we had!!

& honestly, it was that chat with him which made me write this!
His question was simple!! "Prasad, Have you watched the movie? How did you like it? Is it really what happens in India? I pity those slum children! It makes me wanna come to India again!"

aghh! I seriously didn't think so much into the film! I only thought it was a good watch; a well paced entertainer. I didn't look at it like a documentary on what happens in our slums. It didn't seem like the director had any such intentions either!! In that regard, the film is no special. We have been seeing such depictions of poverty in our movies for long. Poverty does exist & my sympathies are with those children. I contribute whatever little I felt I should towards a cause there & stop at it. I don't see any reason to cry foul over the movie saying that it depicts our country in bad light. Just because most bollywood movies show opulence, one doesn't take everyone here as rich and leading luxury life. Same way, just because a movie shows poverty that way, one needn't bother that the world will believe the whole of India is as such. I think it is better left to individuals' sensibility. Every country has problems & time has always found a solution. Things here are turning better & will continue so.