After a lot of resistance , i finally rented Slumdog Millionaire, the movie was good but i still cannot see what the hype is all about ? Should i be fascinated about the screenplay , the story idea ? Yes I am in awe of the idea that the kid relates to all the questions in the contest with his real life experiences and AR Rahman has done it again and this time with just one song.
But sadly that experience ends there .
Here are a few issues i am struggling with ......
What is intriguing is that all the well played moves by the PR department and sudden explosion of media publicity is done all the wonders.
Now there are a couple of ways to look at this situation , the first and foremost is kind of a trite ,banal question about representation , Out of hundreds of movies released in India each year ,what kind of movie gets to represent the Indian ethos?
In spite of the fact that 80% of India lives in villages and me being an Indian has to be cognizant of the hygienic conditions,poverty there is some thing inside telling me that the USP of this film was the depiction of poverty ,corruption,underbelly of Mumbai and not the lovely story idea.
My point is that anyone can make a movie about rampant violence in African countries, epidemic in Ethiopia, crime in inner cities of America, but the real beauty of film making lies in telling the stories without accentuating the sad reality.
