Shabana Azmi's cake = Poverty porn?

Updated On: 24 September, 2010 06:45 AM IST | | The Hitlist Team

At least a writer for leading UK newspaper, The Guardian, seems to think so!

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At least a writer for leading UK newspaper, The Guardian, seems to think so!

Here's an interesting take on Shabana Azmi's 60th birthday party held last Saturday and her bizarre birthday cake (in the shape of a Mumbai slum) by The Guardian's writer Parvez Sharma.

Shabana Azmi with husband Javed Akhtar at her 60th birthday party held at a Juhu nightspot

The piece called 'Is a slumdog birthday cake not the real poverty porn?' is a scathing denouement on the hypocritical attitude taken by some B-Townies.

Here are some excerpts:
"India's Bollywood elite turned out in force for a 60th birthday bash. The birthday girl in question, Shabana Azmi, is almost as old as independent India, having been born just three years after the British Raj ended.
A friend disgusted by this cake sent me a picture. I was appalled and needed to write about it.
The half-eaten cake is a baked replica of what a slum looks like to India's large middle class and its rather small elite.

No millionaire here, only slums: Shabana Azmi's birthday cake presented by hubby Javed Akhtar was made in the shape of a Mumbai slum. It had Galli No 60 written on it to denote her ageu00a0