Slumdog Millionaire romps home with 8 Oscars.
Not that it means a lot to me personally, but to see A R Rahman in the league of elite did definitely make me proud and misty eyed.
Bottomline though, is, that even today in the 21st century when there is so much being talked about India being the fastest growing economy and the next world power etc has failed to woo the West.
The West's entertainment and fodder for mirth is still the Indian Poverty.
Once again they have proved that it is all about the Chromosome.
They will not acknowledge India's presence if that makes India sit right next to them in the highest echelons of power.But they will give all their attention and shower praise and adulation if it is our downtrodden and shoddy state at display.
Slumdog Millionaire has once again proved that the West will not be wooed with our growth but with our despair.
So, for now I choose to feel proud of Rahman and Resul's Oscars and set aside the praise for Danny Boyle's poverty porn, for some other time.
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Nicely articulated
I am coming first time to your blog, trust me I have just finished reading your last five posts.
Good going..keep it up.
I disagree. SDM is a well made film. As for poverty porn, I think poverty is a very real fact of India which slaps one( maybe no those who choose to pretend it is not there) in he face when one sees the real India. There is no global conspiracy to undermine India either, in terms of portraying it in film. It may seem so, from a privileged perspective of our country, the kind you or I or Amitabh Bachchan would have, but actually the poverty, the dirt is a very huge reality. And it is more a human tragedy than anything else. Ignoring it or debating how it should be portrayed, seems to me more of a guilty escape mechanism by which we can avoid the way that reality strikes at us when we see all these things for real- and also avoid the hopelessness it leaves us with when we view it. On another note, it is a film, a story, written by an Indian- not a documentary- (and Smile Pinki, an Indian documentary did win an Oscar this same time), besides the interpretation of the film can also be as it is to me- hope- the keeping alive of a human decency and goodness- in Jamal- unlike Salim- who chose the other way- despite the similarities in circumstances.
I also feel that loving one's country is a good thing, but shouting down the negatives, especially as viewed by "others" and calling them racist is akin to ignoring what can be an opportunity to improve- a more short term love, when these real problems need long term sustainable solutions.
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