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My struggle to bloggg….Archive for January, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire – Hardly Impresses
Rave reviews put my attention to watch this critically acclaimed movie. Mumbai slums,fine performances from the acting front, non linear mode of story telling and well indeed a good piece of camera work. More than these, Slumdog Millionaire is just an average fare. Few messages what delivers to me are as follows.
- Indians will do any thing for women and money. No value for the relationships.
- Indian police is worst enough to slap even kids and there come the Americans to save us. A dedicated scene has been placed to depicit this.
- There is something called TajMahal in India (if you dont know) , which is being used as a source of income (so called tourism) which can oversell among foriegners.
- We have a job category called “Call Center” consists of few dumps and the tea boy works there is much better than them (read “youngsters”) – The thread of the whole movie :lol
- Lot of scenes of socially disturbing menace of prositituition, liquor and drugs with an indirect message that the majority of people lives on it.
- There is a game called “Cricket”. It is not Sachin who scored the maximum century in first class cricket :lol
- Right mix of Communal Violence
Sad to say, these are few key points which catalyzes the entry of movie to Oscars and International festivals for best screenplay. I am surprised, for such a low quality fare has been reviewed as best one.
The movie captures lot of pain and emotionally high strung moments. But when a movie is being taken on India and when it is placed in front of entire world, the intentions it throws is quite negetive and disappointing. We have lot of good things as well and I should have appreciated the efforts if proper slots have given for our positive parts. Intentions would have been good, but not convincing enough to state it as an authentic affair.
The actors and technicians are Indians, so that the 100+ millions Indians would watch and support this “so-called-classic” and can be commericalised to entire world. Maybe the movie hold up a mirror to one dimension of Indian society and it can be judgemental, but not to an extend of this one dimensional criticism. Anyways my kudos to A R Rahman for winning Gloden Globe and nominations to Oscar!
Hey reviewers/friends/critics, think for a while.
Broken Promises
Another new year ! I am afraid to wish a nice year ahead taken into consideration the crisis we undergo. Economic downturn is one thing which all the media and financial experts excessively speaks and debates.
Most of us believe, this is something which will get affected to US and its allies or to an extend of insecurity among professionals in banking or IT sector, which is not the fact. This is a slow process that will hit your doorstep one day. Cutting down your expenses, decreasing spending power or step back from investments is not the right thing which we should do at this moment.
Cuba is least affected with the recent recession trend. The current global economic model is highly based on consumerism which in turn is its disadvantage. India and most of the Asian economies is being inherited from this model. We depned on other nations and we are infected, while Cuba is not.
We should create a sophisticated and content model which should work in our house, then in our village which extends to the whole nation. Young generation’s mindset to quick money and better lifestyle need to be transformed and restore the focus to the importance of a “content-activity” (job or self employment). We guys must carry a goal card. We need to come out of the conventional educational practice of just “creating professionals” introduced by British and need to come out with a syllabus which should prioritise the concept of self existence through socio-economic-technological-scientific trends. The awareness precedes the change.
Everyone is running behind rescue plans which is temporary. We should keep our eyes and ears open. If we should act in right time else it should act on us. This is one natural law which has governed the humanity which can pool up to govern an entire society. Act now.
Think?
