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Indians don’t like Slumdog Millionaire

Indians have protested against the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire because it shows the real face of India. The film has shown the conditions under which most Indians live (in grinding poverty and filth). Several hundred people attacked a cinema house in Patna, protesting at the title of the film. About 40 Mumbai slum dwellers, organized by a social activist, held up banners reading “Poverty for Sale” and “I am not a dog” outside the home of Anil Kapoor, one of the film’s stars. Film star Amitabh Bachan also accused the film makers of portraying India as a “third-world, dirty, underbelly developing nation”.

I don’t know why he was offended. Four out of ten Indians go to bed hungry every night. The scenes that we see in Indian movies and tele-plays which show men and women always enjoying life do not depict the real India. The real India is in the slums, where the streets are filled with shit and the air stinks of urine. It’s time for Indian leaders to concentrate on improving the living standards of the starving population of India and not to spend on projects like sending rockets to the moon.

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35 responses to “Indians don’t like Slumdog Millionaire”

  1. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    @Nitin: the next superpower is Iran, which has launched its own satellite without Russian help. India, of course, could not have developed its missiles and rockets without Russian assistance. And now, India is a satellite of the U.S., under whose orders it will try to block Iran’s progress.

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  2. Nitin Avatar
    Nitin

    Whole India doesn’t belong to slum.If there are slum, world-class infrastructure is there too. Therefore, there is no point on blaming to India. Why are you jealous if we launched rocket?
    Its time to say to the world INDIA is emerging as a superpower very soon.
    Tomoorrow is ours

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  3. najiya abdul azeez Avatar
    najiya abdul azeez

    yet another reason to despise india? when are we going to learn? its just a movie…nothing more..how many movies are made showing , depicting, the most dreamt of dreams..love between pakistan and india…absolute waste of everything…man has forgotten how to live in peace…how to love one another…

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  4. sidd Avatar
    sidd

    Faysal is a jealous shit load of slum dog!! hahaha

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  5. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    Happy blogging Sir, and best of luck with your blog.

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  6. Faysal Bukhari Avatar
    Faysal Bukhari

    Brother Yusha

    I never deleted any comment of anyone… I would never as long as the comment is within socially accepted mannerism… As regards my writing the comments and my articles on blog, I consider it a great fact to be writing these myself.. I dont believe in borrowed ideas and style.. Happy Blogging Brother

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  7. SALMAN Avatar
    SALMAN

    ITS VERY EASY TO BLAME OTHERS.FIRST U PAKISTANI SEE YOUR COUNTRY STATUS BEFORE POINTING FINGERS AT INDIA.YOUR COUNTRY IS AT WORST CONDITION THAN INDIA.YOU PEOPLE ARE SO FRUSTRATED FROM YOUR SELF THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS POINTING FINGERS AT INDIA.
    “YOUR COUNTRY IS IN SUCH A POOR CONDITION BUT YOU PEOPLE WILL NEVER LEARN,FIRST CORRECT YOUR MISTAKE BEFORE CORRECTING OTHERS AND INDIA IS BY LARGE IN MUCH BETTER CONDITION THAN YOUR COUNTRY”
    SO PLEASE MIND YOUR COUNTRY BUSINESS FIRST ..OK…PAKISTANIS…BHAIJAANS…

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  8. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    @Faisal Bukhari: I visited your blog. All the comments in the post you have written above have exactly the same writing style as yours. It seems as though you yourself write those comments to attract traffic. Another thing is that you deleting Fahd Mirza’s comment is a little pathetic. I understand it is your blog and you can do what you want with it, but everyone should have an equal say. No offence intended with anything I have said.

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  9. Faysal Bukhari Avatar
    Faysal Bukhari

    “The British colonialists once ruled; now look, they are laughing at us and winning awards too,” is the thrust of some English language press reviews of this overhyped movie. I pity the Indian electronic media and critics who are showing child-like enthusiasm over the success of the movie. The overcrowded cinemas are nothing but a cruel reminder of the very fact of the infamous term about today’s India: India shining. The cosmetic effect of the Bollywood style of a slum dweller gaining riches has blinded the Indian public and critics to the real depiction and portrayal of Mumbai’s slums. They have failed to look at the shitholes in which the slum dwellers prefer to jump into for a glimpse of Amitabh Bachan (who coincidently has critically discussed the movie on his blog and shown his disgust over the same issues). There cannot be a bigger irony than the sight of a private helicopter and the shit smeared kid dying to get an autograph of Mr. Bachan. India seems to be more interested in the correct answer that would win Jamal a few thousand rupees than the Hindu’s massacre of Muslims that taught him the right answer. India is more interested in the utopian Bollywood theme of the hero finding the girl of his dreams at the end of the movie than pondering upon the life story of Latika that passes through a begging camp, a brothel, a rape and the bedroom of a gangster. The most ironic part of the movie is the theme of the movie itself: a popular international show ‘who wants to be a millionaire’.
    I fail to find a genuine reason of the hype created by the movie and even disappointed by the awards bestowed upon it by the Golden Globe. It is just another ‘masala’ movie with endless flaws of facts. However, there is one point to be learnt from the movie and that is the pathetic state of the society of the largest democracy of the world and of a nation that is aspiring to be recognized as a regional super power. The fact remains that India has a society which is shallow, intolerant, racist and greedy. India’s cosmetic feel-good image is confined to Bollywood and its media which in fact shall prove to be counter-productive because closing eyes to the problems and portraying these problems as glamour justifies these terrible issues as acceptable in the deteriorating society of India. The term ‘India shining’ reminds me of a proverb that I learnt in school when I was a kid. All that glitters is not gold. I am positive that the shine of India that I see on media is definitely not that of Gold.

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  10. openureyes Avatar
    openureyes

    i would like to tell u one thing clerarly that whole world knows that India is 2 fastest growing economy..i doubt u dont know.
    And au must look to ur own country status .

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