The slumdog millionaire, that won the BAFTA awards and the Golden Globes is being highly applauded by the elite in India. Reflecting upon the struggle of the Indian soul through the year's, one of the biggest industry that comes to mind is Bollywood that has undergone a paradigm shift in the new millennium. With a middle-class market of about half a billion ppl, Bollywood felt it could bypass the hinterland as well as middle India. The establishment of mega malls with multiplexes created the right ambience for this cash-rich class and also became a meeting place for the Indian rich and Famous and wannabe rich but by the sheer brutality of economics, excluded the masses that had created and built Bollywood in the first place.
The multiplex culture created a new way of making movies made by a new crowd (call it fresh talent) for a new crowd. Movies today do not exploit the acting prowess of its actors nor justify the character The movies have lost their own independent character and unique grammar, its own benchmark of excellence. We have so many more Hindi movies with English names. Even when the location of story is a remote village, The hero and heroine go for a song shot in New Zealand and the rich man's son in the village drives nothing less than a Ferrari. I do agree that the movie is an entertainment but the sheer lack of emotions, the height of hallucinations and lovey dovey tales filled with no adherence to reality is indeed flabbergasting.
If there's one thing that Slumdog Millionaire has exposed, it is the rootlessness of India's social elite. Isn't it ironic that the same class that booted out rural India, urban slums and every other ovestige of India Crying from mainstream Bollywood in its lust for feel-good cinema or would you call it getting tagged as a golden globe movie watcher, now claims to be enjoying Danny Boyle's movie? Appreciating Slumdog isn't a sign of its maturity and confidence, It is more an symbol of a set of people that is confused and want to watch a cinema since it has wom accolades outside your world. it is more an indicator of what the people are trying to be, some one else in a some other place like the hidden valley filled with treasures.
I feel this way after watching the movie as the movie is an sincere attempt at weaving the reality with fantasy which to suit the sensibilities of the current day Indian cinema which always has a happy ending and a rainbow in the sky. Finally I would conclude saying that we still appreciate a westerner's view point of a developing country irrespective of the movie being a reality or a fantasy. Time to get some roots that grow deep and wings strong enough to reach the skies.
The multiplex culture created a new way of making movies made by a new crowd (call it fresh talent) for a new crowd. Movies today do not exploit the acting prowess of its actors nor justify the character The movies have lost their own independent character and unique grammar, its own benchmark of excellence. We have so many more Hindi movies with English names. Even when the location of story is a remote village, The hero and heroine go for a song shot in New Zealand and the rich man's son in the village drives nothing less than a Ferrari. I do agree that the movie is an entertainment but the sheer lack of emotions, the height of hallucinations and lovey dovey tales filled with no adherence to reality is indeed flabbergasting.
If there's one thing that Slumdog Millionaire has exposed, it is the rootlessness of India's social elite. Isn't it ironic that the same class that booted out rural India, urban slums and every other ovestige of India Crying from mainstream Bollywood in its lust for feel-good cinema or would you call it getting tagged as a golden globe movie watcher, now claims to be enjoying Danny Boyle's movie? Appreciating Slumdog isn't a sign of its maturity and confidence, It is more an symbol of a set of people that is confused and want to watch a cinema since it has wom accolades outside your world. it is more an indicator of what the people are trying to be, some one else in a some other place like the hidden valley filled with treasures.
I feel this way after watching the movie as the movie is an sincere attempt at weaving the reality with fantasy which to suit the sensibilities of the current day Indian cinema which always has a happy ending and a rainbow in the sky. Finally I would conclude saying that we still appreciate a westerner's view point of a developing country irrespective of the movie being a reality or a fantasy. Time to get some roots that grow deep and wings strong enough to reach the skies.
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