I was truly impressed when i came out of the theatre after watching "Slumdog Millionaire" on a December weekend here in the US. I left the hall with some pain, a pain that you feel when you are thrusted with a cruel truth which we have so comfortably ignored for so long.
May be , all those people who feel offended after watching the movie are not able to digest the truth - a common thing for all hypocrite Indians. When in Bombay, you get an unpleasant yet beautiful view of the slums from a Plane as you land into the economic capital of the nation. There has always been a habit of claiming glory in a "not so correct" way by us Indians, be it Kalpana chawla, Sunitha Williams, Bobby Jindal, Lakshmi Mittal or any famous personality who happen to have his/her origins (no matter whether he/she likes it or not). We do not understand the fact that in a nation of 1.3 billion people - we are bound to get scattered across the globe and as it turns out we will grow where ever we are, just like any other human race.
To me "Slumdog Millionaire" is the most honest film i had seen after a Tamil movie called "Mozhi", it is an effort to show the world what it is to live in the hell of "Bombay" and i say it with due respect to the beauty of the city. It is only human to accept the fact that the slums shown in the movie is no exaggeration and is a true picture of the maximum city. I was indeed take aback by the statements of Amitabh bhachan on the movie who happens to live in the same city and that also gave me some idea of how success and honesty may not be always together as he can be touted as the most successful media person of this era of the nation and yet not honest enough to accept a blatant truth about our own dirty backyard.
Slumdog Millionaire is a capture of the rashes your heart goes through as you see the slums in Bombay, but who has the time to be immersed into it when the city has so much to offer. Danny Boyle has to be praised for his work and a truly Patriotic Indian would only Thank him for bringing in the harsh reality to the center stage of the world which otherwise would have been a thing-to-hide for all of us.
May be , all those people who feel offended after watching the movie are not able to digest the truth - a common thing for all hypocrite Indians. When in Bombay, you get an unpleasant yet beautiful view of the slums from a Plane as you land into the economic capital of the nation. There has always been a habit of claiming glory in a "not so correct" way by us Indians, be it Kalpana chawla, Sunitha Williams, Bobby Jindal, Lakshmi Mittal or any famous personality who happen to have his/her origins (no matter whether he/she likes it or not). We do not understand the fact that in a nation of 1.3 billion people - we are bound to get scattered across the globe and as it turns out we will grow where ever we are, just like any other human race.
To me "Slumdog Millionaire" is the most honest film i had seen after a Tamil movie called "Mozhi", it is an effort to show the world what it is to live in the hell of "Bombay" and i say it with due respect to the beauty of the city. It is only human to accept the fact that the slums shown in the movie is no exaggeration and is a true picture of the maximum city. I was indeed take aback by the statements of Amitabh bhachan on the movie who happens to live in the same city and that also gave me some idea of how success and honesty may not be always together as he can be touted as the most successful media person of this era of the nation and yet not honest enough to accept a blatant truth about our own dirty backyard.
Slumdog Millionaire is a capture of the rashes your heart goes through as you see the slums in Bombay, but who has the time to be immersed into it when the city has so much to offer. Danny Boyle has to be praised for his work and a truly Patriotic Indian would only Thank him for bringing in the harsh reality to the center stage of the world which otherwise would have been a thing-to-hide for all of us.
