This country produces classes but in patches. When he comes he arrives to rule the world that is for sure!
We had just one Gandhi, Truly a masterpiece, a torchbearer of world peace, an incomparable miracle, a man of principles, and unparallel creation of the God who was born never to have a figure like him. We are still searching his shadows to alleviate the polity of our country but alas…cancer has never been so incurable and we have none so far.
May be then one Indira Gandhi who is known as iron lady of India. May be but this lady of iron would then had undergone scrutinizing through our generation but had never an opportunity to rationalized hr achievements and drawbacks.
Luckily we are living in the era of Sachin Tendulkar who has been being named as the god of cricket often. I sometimes think if h is the god what had been the honours for Sir Don Bradman then? Still he is the one of the greatest master.
Then just few days back we happened to be the part of achievement in the field of cinema. From nowhere a movie arrived like a meteoroid and soon it griped the nation in an euphoria of winning the Academy award finally, forgetting what it was all about. Than as told and anticipated, it swept the floor with 8 Oscars out of possible 10.
India went hysterical. In the busy street of Santacruz in Mumbai, I saw even the poor labourers telling each other in “Bhojpuri” that India won some award in “Bidesh”. News channels shouting at full throttle like they are awarding the Oscar to India!
To some extend it was justified to celebrate, afterall we are the largest producer of movies each year and each year passes by without any international presence felt. What goes wrong? We market well for our films. It is a billion rupees industry which waives the dreams for full 3 hours taking you all along to the beautiful rivers, mountains, sweet girls and drama like any other film made in Hollywood or in France. Or to some plot involving lot of action, motion and ultimately hero either winning or dying the death of martyr.
Forget for full three hours you are battling the common problems of day to day life.
But my question was is it justified to hype the success of “Slumdog Millionaire”? I do not know much about making of movie but all I know that the plot is nothing that could be called something as new. There is already a movie on the same subject with the name “Dharavi”. Have you heard about it ?No I hope!
It was not heard, not because it did not deserve! It was because it was made by an Indian!! If I say more bluntly, may be had same movie been made by the same Mr. Danny Boyle he would have got the same Oscar years back! I just wanted to ask the question what was something in “Slumdog Millionaire”? that India does not make? I still wonder what was wrong with “Lagaan”. “Swadesh”? Or TJP?
I must be frank enough that I fully endorse the view of Mr.Amitabh Bacchan what he wrote is his blog that we need not to look west to get the approval or recognition. When we indian will understand that afterall there is something called national pride. Remember Kalpana Chawala? Only because she studies in India made her star overnight and none bothered what she did for India? All she did was for herself and her genius and other services were for US.What she did for India that we sing her, I still ask?? Really I do not understand why we go ga-ga over something which in ultimately making us laughing stock??
“Slumdog…” is nothing but a portrait of the penury of 350 million people of India who are forced to live in that way. And one director from west comes to India, knowing that what the stuff actually world wants to see and he makes the mockery of poverty for his finical gains. He knew that what a movie made by a white skinned director can achieve; none of any Indian would achieve it, anything he tries. Are you convinced that he showed to spread some message? He was here because for him it was just his business. And he got what he thought of.
And we are celebrating the success of “Slumdog Millionaire”? because at last we are rewarded for our poverty! Yes that is what the message went worldwide.For the rest of the world we are not 4th largest economy, largest democracy, neuclear power country,one of the highst growth rate economy but we are just the country of poors, beggers asking for help?? Whom to blame? Think we Indians will remain like this only. We do not value ourselves till someone out from our sphere blesses us and approves our work. I call it joke because we are appreciated for out poverty and we are happy because world is laughing on the living standard on Dharavi. Proud moment of India isn’t it?
We shold have celebrated only for 3 Oscars because that is the numbers we won! It was the solo music of AR Rahman and lyrics of Gulzar which could not be Danny Boyled! But then again they won because they worked with Danny boyle. May be that has been the reason that despite winning Oscar, AR Rahman did not mention the music of “Slumdog Millionaire” as his best creation as asked by Timsnows because deep in his heart he knew that he won it only because this was the movie of someone who is a white and not hails from India! He knew that he had given better performance in other movies.
Come on India we will wait for the day when a movie made in India by indian wins oscar. Jai Ho!
