After hearing the hype, I watched the movie (Slumdog Millionaire) yesterday. The movie goes from innovative story to pathetically Bollywood-like screenplay. Haven't read the book "Q & A" on which it is based, but a crispier narration would have done a lot of wonder.
I had heard about the low light this movie shows India in. My take is a bit different. It does shows what is truth, but gets stuck with showing only the single side of a coin.
The other contentious part is that a boy from the slum (agreed, he worked as a chai-wala in a BPO), still he speaks English with an accent. The Inspector and the Constable are speaking with Indian accent. Also, many a times the host speaks in Hindi, but this boy replies in his accented English. Doesn't look like he is from the slums, does it?
This is my opinion, but I would have liked the movie to be either made in Hindi and dubbed in English or vice versa. This kind of experiments (this is far from Hinglish genre movies we see now-a-days) is really bad.
All in all, a nice movie. Could have been much better if handled in a different way. A nice cliched Bollywood movie, I can say. The end songs is typical Bollywood.
Events shown are definitely improbable, if not impossible.
I had heard about the low light this movie shows India in. My take is a bit different. It does shows what is truth, but gets stuck with showing only the single side of a coin.
The other contentious part is that a boy from the slum (agreed, he worked as a chai-wala in a BPO), still he speaks English with an accent. The Inspector and the Constable are speaking with Indian accent. Also, many a times the host speaks in Hindi, but this boy replies in his accented English. Doesn't look like he is from the slums, does it?
This is my opinion, but I would have liked the movie to be either made in Hindi and dubbed in English or vice versa. This kind of experiments (this is far from Hinglish genre movies we see now-a-days) is really bad.
All in all, a nice movie. Could have been much better if handled in a different way. A nice cliched Bollywood movie, I can say. The end songs is typical Bollywood.
Events shown are definitely improbable, if not impossible.
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