Slumdog Millionaire Malayalam Dubbed Movie Download
Anastacia Iacono
But wait. Do Hindu saffron-clothed Senas not run havoc through Muslim slums? Do street kids not get taken in by beggar gangs and maimed? Doesnt rape happen in India? Are those slums specially constructed sets? Why do you, third world denizen, get so defensive about your own country? Chill.
Example relevant to Slumdog. When the kid jumps into a pile of excretum, it does not feel cliched because the movie is not trying to make a point about the necessity of clean toilets (which is true enough) but everything to do with his adoration of Bachchan. Context is everything.
You took the words right out my mouth GB. Remember the Western tourist whose expensive car is taken apart. While the Indian starts beating Jamal, the kind Westerner takes pity and gives the kid money. Now I get this is making fun of Westerners trying to solve the worlds problems by giving money but as we all know Westerners do not always do that. The subtext here is very clear. I do not even need to say what it is.
1. If someone sticks to a novel written by an Indian, how is it redeeming? The problem is not that Boyle is Western and hence has no rights to show the horror that is India. The problem is that the story (and I have not read the novel) as presented in the movie is fantastic and stereotypical and made cleverly to appeal to a Western audience. It does not matter whether it came from the pen of an Indian or the mind of a Britisher. If Boyle has followed the book to a T, then the book was equally disappointing. I read somewhere actually that the book took greater pains to explain the connection with the questions than the movie but then again thats what I heard.
You really understand yourself well.
Yes the life in mumbai that is shown in their is certainly the kind of Image people like Arundhati Roy would love t show the world. Yes, the movie does not even go near to reality.
Extending this thought, one will also see that so many of our Indian English authors too have vaulted the fence and become alien. Your review points exactly to this gut-twisting feeling when one watches Slumdog, notwithstanding comments like that of take_blindfold_off.
Honestly, every time I see an ostensibly bleeding heart film like this, her words always ring in my head. Someday, hopefully, our poor would have the resources and opportunities to tell their stories, and we would be able to get rid of the intermediaries who are supposedly speaking on their behalf.
GB, you are bang on target.. You forgot about the dance number in the end that is a) very badly choreographed b) no connection with the movie (another of your checked items) and c) It is there just because western audience wants to see bollywood dance numbers.. That gives out the real motive of the director(s).
If Forrest Gump can win Oscars, Slumdog has every right to claim some. Mr. F is a millionaire, sat beside John Lennon on a TV show, had Elvis as their tenant, was the table tennis champion and went to China, in short he had all the life experiences that one can dream of. Oh I forgot the war veteran part. And in the end got the girl.
In Slumdog, Mr. Slumdog is a millionaire, sat beside Anil Kapoor on a TV how, had an autograph from Amitabh, got orphaned in riots, dealt with the underworld, and in the end, got the girl.
Absolutely spot on review. I had exactly the same notion about this movie. Bloody cliched western outlook. Boyle would have done himself a world of good had he watched Salaam Bombay before he made this caricature of a movie !!!
A phoney and despicable representation of India. The depiction of the kid covered with shit is probably metaphorically quite correct in the way that US still unaware of how to clean up, covers the whole world with its own shit.
The love story in the book is a completely different animal and is kept on the fringes. All it DOES, when it appears, is bring out the character of the kid. All of this comes together in the book, in a very entertaining way.
I was wide awake. I saw American lashing out dollar notes at the kids who robed them. I saw that slum dog knew all about Benjamin Franklin and not anything about Gandhi. And like every smiling American viewer I believed it.
And after sometime it become his first tongue even while talking to his bro ( I am , taught in lower English school in Maharashtra , not able to even write good English. Shame on Me). F$$k you man , it is cinematic liberty.
No they didnt. At least thats not what I remember. Each had a distinct focus and were not just piling up one nightmare after another. And each of them was greater than the sum of its parts, Requiem for me even more so.
Gotta admire the entire technical team behind this movie, they come here and beat Bollywood at their own game. Hope B-town takes notice of the excellent production values, edgy editing and the visceral feel of the movie.
what really boils my blood is to see fellow indians/cine fanatics ranting over rooftops claiming slumdog is superb ..while the exectuion and craft is superb nonetheless but noone commented on the honesty of the filmaker
Beautifully put, you bring out the little perceptual dots thru which the story is connected, which are nothing more than standard indian cliches.(Why not also a snake charmer and a mahout in the slum?)
In my opinion, those panning Slumdog are the ones at the most loss, coz they were deprived of enjoyin a film thats a roller-coaster. Yeah, I would rather have fun and enjoy my time spent, rather than suffering from paralysis by (may i say needless) analysis.
Are you seriously trying to generalize Indian cinema as nothing but melodrama? Are you so overwhelmed by the hype of the Slumdog Millionaire marketing machine that you fail to see all these very interesting, very gritty, very Indian films that have been made over the years?
Seriously, sometimes I think the Indian middle class is the worst kind of wannabe. While very well made films that explore the underbelly of India remain completely unsung and uncelebrated, Slumdog Millionaire becomes some kind of uber tribute to the poor of India? Why?
And then they go about complaining how Indian filmmakers only make melodramas and focus on the lives of the rich. Our mainstream filmmakers do this because this is what urban educated Indians are telling them to do (make no mistake, Karan Johar himself confessed that no one watches his films in rural Bihar).
Q & A is about an 18-year-old waiter called Ram Mohammad Thomas who takes part in a quiz show and wins it. The police believe he has cheated because how could an uneducated waiter win 2 crore rupees like that. The book follows the order of the questions and each chapter points to how he knew the answer to the questions. His friendship with Salim is important but not such a major portion of the story as the film makes it out to be.
I loved the book. I thought the concept and uniqueness of the protagonist made it a very enjoyable read. In the list of objectionable things you mention, the book only contains a chapter about begging and blindings of innocent children. There was no rape or mention of human filth, and definitely no call centers.
All those things happen to people and i myself have seen child crawling on a heap of waste. You could imagine that the life of that blind child begging at the subway (tipped by hero: Jamal) would have been more miserable than that of Hero himself who with all the arguable coincidences, still finds some valuable things in life. And when a large chunk of people in cities like Mumbai live in slums, those unfortunate lives are not hard to find. Of course, seeing it all on screen is a shocking and disgusting experience.
There is filth everywhere in India, no need to glorify that unless Danny Boyle is going to spend a good portion of the earnings from the movie to uplift the conditions in atleast one ghetto (slum) in India. Do not exploit the poor people of India and the 3rd world to fill your pockets. Do something- dammit!
I made sure that I was aware that I was having unrealistic expectation while entering the theater. Perhaps that helped in me liking the movie! But yeah too much hype or expectation can sometimes kill the movie for you.
* In India, if chai wallahs were educated enough to step in for a call centre worker speak english, and do searches on the computer, they wouldnt be chai wallahs, they would be working in a call centre. duh!
*The writer seems to think that in india the class divide is an economic one. It is not. It is a socio cultural one, philosophical, educational, psychological one. That is a big difference between India and largely class-less western cultures.
*The character of Latika is supposed to be superbly beautiful. However the actress who played her character is completely ordinary looking, even less than average by Indian standards. She has looks that would appeal to a western audience. To be believable in that role the actress playing that character would need to have stereotpical features that would be considered attractive (and exotic) by Indians ie. fair skinned, light eyed, busty voluptuous etc.
This is at the core emotional heart of the Indian psyche. And It is the celebration of this that makes a feelgood bollywood film, not blinded children, a rapist brother, a woman who has been sold, violated and mutilated, and a million dollars.
Sadly, your powers of perception have been greatly overestimated. Reviewing Gunda is where your strength lies. The Slumdog millionaire is as much about life in India as much as The Good Earth is about Chinese culture.
I was hoping for a movie that depicted India without the masala and that was real. I wish there were more movies about India or having Indian characters without the masala. I really think there is potential for our film industry to be more than what it is. I think there is more to Indians in general than masala, but we always confine ourselves to those terms and it really disappoints me.
I think we can have depth, realism and griddiness without making a fake happy ending or forcing a love story into a plot that had potential for a lot more depth than it manifested on film. My dream is for an Indian movie to just showing reality as it is, but in a way that people are entertained and enlightened at the same time. Gandhi is probably the only good non-masala movie about India I think of. Yes, I absolutely love that movie. If any of you know of any other films like that, please share.
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