Was Slumdog hyped?
While the whole of India is going overboard over Slumdog Millionaire's feast at the Oscar, there are some dissenting notes in the cyber space.
Some blogs are wondering whether the film really deserved it.
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This techie bloggeru00a0feels that Slumdog is simply not a 'desi' film.
"Its not because that I despise the film or feel like the hazaar folks out there who feel the movie is showing India in a poor light, its just that its a British film which was shot in India. Its not a Desi movie!!
"I would say that Oscars are a medium of recognition to films par excellence which cater to the sensibilities of the Oscar nomination team who I believe have not really seen the full expanse of good movies churned out by different countries. How else do we explain that most of the nominations are for movies which are in English. So calling Oscars the pinnacle of excellence in world cinema would be gross injustice to the works of magnificence created by brilliant directors across the globe spanning from Rio DE janeiro till Canberra," says this blogger.
"I don't see it denigrating India as the story's setting is in a slum and we obviously can't show the mansions of Anil or Mukesh Ambani," says the blogger.
If there are people who think that the slums are not real India, then even what SRK does in K3G is not real India, says the blogger, adding lets try to eradicate the slums rather than saying how dare you show the slums to the world!
He feels that Rahman getting an Oscar for Slumdog is an "insult to his earlier compositions which were far superior."
This bloggeru00a0also feels that Slumdog's composition wasn't the best of Rahman.
"I guess this was not one of his best scores, he has given great music in many other Bollywood movies and this was average for his standard in my opinion," feels the blogger.
Acccording to the blogger, it is a mockery of India made for the viewing pleasure of westerners. She feels it worked just because of the British direction and production.
Theu00a0 blogger feels that Gulzar and singer Sukhvinder, who sangu00a0 Jai Ho, were treated like 'underdogs' as he missed the Oscar ceremony and "the credit all went to Rehman."
She feels that the dialogue delivery in the film was a 'pain' all through the movie. "Dev Patel was an eye sore and the Bollywood style romance with Frieda Pinto seemed utterly out of place. Everything he did rang hollow: every piece of dialogue, every bit of action, everything."
The blogger feels that the way Salim is portrayed towards the ending of the movie is highly reminiscent of scenes from highly acclaimed Brazilian movie "The City of God."
Was it hyped?
This blogger, Ramiah Ariya,u00a0attributes the charges against the movie to the 'colonial mindset'.
The blogger quotes Shyam Benegal as saying that Danny Boyle was not Indian and the movie is his creative expression. Thus his creative expressions can only show India as he sees it (along with his crew). "Nothing wrong with that - same thing happens if an Indian makes a movie about Italy."
This bloggeru00a0 feels that Slumdog was too partisan to deserve eight awards. "It just proved that Hollywood is the same as Bollywood. In everything except special effects."
The blogger attributes the success of Slumdog to the people's desire to feel optimistic. A heartwarming rags-to-riches love story during times of financial trouble is bound to do well, says the blogger. But the blogger doesn't believe that it was cinematic excellence that deserved eight Oscars.
This bloggeru00a0also is of the opinion thatu00a0Slumdog was not a great movie. Slumdog did not deserve the hype and it was 'overrated.'
This bloggeru00a0believes that the movie didn't deserve all the hype it received.
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