15 January, 2009. While watching the Golden Globe Awards the other day, I noticed that the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" picked up quite a few awards. However, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, the legendary Indian film actor (one time politician) disagrees with all the silly hoopla associated with this movie. I mean come on, here in the US you can see terrible slums, in London too and in many other western cities in Europe.... but nobody want's to make a movie about these 'western slums'. Never heard of the character "Danny Boyle'...maybe he should also make a movie about slums in NY and London, right in his own backyard...He will be surprised what he would find ... I agree with the comments below.
Amitabh Bachchan isn’t as taken with Danny Boyle’s Oscar favourite, Slumdog Millionaire, as the rest of the world seems to be.
Blogging from Paris a few days ago, where he saw migrants begging on the streets, the actor wrote, “They are migrants or asylum seekers from nearby or distant country and are begging he (his driver) informs me... On blog, comments for the film ‘SlumDog Millionaire’ and the anger by some on its contents, prompt me to say the above.
If SM projects India as Third World dirty under belly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky under belly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. Its just that the SM idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Globe recognition.
The other would perhaps not... The commercial escapist world of Indian Cinema had vociferously battled for years, on the attention paid and the adulation given to the legendary Satyajit Ray at all the prestigious Film Festivals of the West, and not a word of appreciation for the entertaining mass oriented box office block busters that were being churned out from Mumbai. The argument. Ray portrayed reality... But look how rapidly all that is changing...”
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/AB_India_aint_all_slums_dogs/articleshow/3984007.cms)
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