Comments on: Movie Review – Slumdog Millionaire

By: soloross

soloross — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:10:47 +0000

“The truth remains that India is largely not a glittering country of plenty but of poverty. People who visit India for the first time always come away shocked and rightly so.”
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By: Hindi Radio

Hindi Radio — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:57:26 +0000

I have seen this movie and belive me there is no nosense. Movie is perfectly kneeted with Indian reality.

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By: amreekandesi

amreekandesi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:59:00 +0000

@Mr S Singh – I have edited your comment to remove the expletives. I will not delete the comment just so everybody has the chance to read this piece of art.

You are free to express your opinion, but please refrain from using such language in public forums.

(If you have to rant, at least try to make it grammatically correct.)

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By: S SINGH

S SINGH — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:44:08 +0000

There is no hope for india because indians are too stupid and brainwashed to even realize when someone is insulting them. Why has the Sone ki Chidiya turned into slums. It is because indian have sold their soul to every ******* invader who with wide smirk calls us dog and *****. the movie has an american couple handing over dollar bill to slumdog. the movie shows little blue heathen murderer god in middle of a riot. the movie has ghanshyam bhajan being sung out by blinded children. if indians are so stupid to realize what is gora propaganda they deserve to be annihilated like native americans another good deed done by our british friends and “visitors”. now americans are even calling their sepoy pet Jindal as slumdog so movie was specifically designed to denigrate indians. but indians are born only to lickspittle and dance ***** in front of gora. go ahead and delete this comment if you like but let it be known that only real slumdog is the Indians who love this movie. tell your children you are slumdog and proud of it. foools

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By: OscarDB.com

OscarDB.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:19:01 +0000

If you have seen more than 1 of the 5 oscar nominations, vote for the one you think will win the best picture award at oscardb.com (before Feb 22nd).

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By: Shivya

Shivya — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Whoa, sounds like a brilliant movie. I’m sure going to watch it.

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By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:34:59 +0000

QI/ AD

Have you seen Satyajit Ray’s portrayal of India? Some accused him of cashing in on India’s poverty to earn recognition at Cannes etc. The truth remains that India is largely not a glittering country of plenty but of poverty. People who visit India for the first time always come away shocked and rightly so. I am guessing it hurts because brutal portrayals are really too close to the truth, eh?

The book on which the film is based – called Q&A – is written by an Indian civil servant called Vikas Swarup. It was such a low key book that few have read it. Unusually for me, although I do not read fiction, I have read it having bought it as an ‘airport paperback’ once. From the reviews and the huge number of TV rushes and interviews that I have read and seen so far – the UK release is Jan 9th – it seems the director has done a great job of portraying India in high fidelity just like the author of the book has done.

In production notes type of commentary, most street kids are real street kids, not actors. The lead is a British teen who has only recently emerged in the public’s consciousness and his last role was in an experimental teen drama called Skins.

Besides Danny Boyle is a director of some talent. His other products have been The Beach and Trainspotting. As gritty portrayals go, he did not leave Glasgow unscathed in the latter. But if you see the real Glasgow in all honesty, you will see he said or showed nothing that isn’t already there. At least he is true to his art, and you can be sure he did not single India out for this ‘special gritty realism’ treatment.

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By: amreekandesi

amreekandesi — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:13:02 +0000

@Kiran, @Vijay, @Poonam – Thanks.

@QI – Good point you bring up about gora portrayals of India. This one is quite realistic – hard to believe that a non indian made this movie.

@Philip – Awesome movie indeed. 5/5 movies are rare

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By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:37:16 +0000

Its my first 5/5 rating for a movie in a long long time. Awesome movie.

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