Thursday, January 15, 2009

Sandgroper's Movie Minutes - Slumdog Millionaire

I could write on and on about the movie, but it's kinda pointless.. Critics paid to write by the word, and knowing more about the movie world than me, have heaped praise on it.. Golden Globe winner, Sure-fire Oscar nominee, etc..

So, is it any good?

Can't say.. If this can win a Golden Globe, surely Om Shanti Om can too..

It's a Bollywood movie..

Period..

The only difference is it shows Mumbai different from what our guys would have.. Simply because the slums of Mumbai, the tourist scams of the Taj Mahal, the seedy underbelly as the smart asses call it..

It depicts Mumbai like the book Shantaram did.. It does so, because it's so novel to the director.. The grime and the crime.. You can only be from the outside to show such things..

Because if you're from the inside, you're inert to all this..

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Without having seen the movie - this is precisely the reaction that I have seen from Indian moviegoers. Somethings are just real-life for us to project it as Oscar Winning Material.

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