Thursday, January 15, 2009

Today's Special: Made In India

Watched the newest sensation about India, 'Slumdog Millionaire'. A huge disappointment.

Incredible, how quickly a halo can be engineered around a product, service, individual or a country for that matter. India is the latest find of the world. Winner of four Golden Globe awards and one which includes another first to India, 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a thoroughly ordinary movie.

While I am happy to see India and Indians being recognized in the world stage, what if all those that are grabbing attention are the very ordinary types and may not be the really deserving ones in the first place. These days it looks more like, pick an Indian if one is around; from Booker Prize to Miss World to Golden Globe. For, if you take the Indianness out of Parvathy Omanakuttan, she hardly looks Miss World-material for me. While I enjoyed the background score in the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire', the track that won the Golden Globe for A.R. Rahman is the typical 'once-heard-move-on' kind that the Bolly- and all the other -woods in India churn out in thousands every year.

While congratulating Arvind Adiga, Parvathy Omanakuttan and A.R. Rahman on their feats, I am finding myself completely lost ...

2 comments:

Manu said...

I do agree that slum dog millionaire is built around a hype.There is also one more thing which I guess you might have missed. The film is inspiring people all over the world. What I feel is, it is a movie which touched the hearts of people since it talked about one like us, with us, amongst us.It portrayed life as is.It is a good show. Music belongs to the genre of subjective judgment, so no comments on that. Good writing, keep writing.

Nidhi♡ said...

Thanks, Manu.