Hi CC

Scroll down for Mr Bachchan's Comments on SM as posted on Yahoo.

 

I saw SM few weeks ago.

If not for the name of Danny Boyle this flick is a fast paced Bollywood movie with all the masala in right places...oh yes! with a song sequence at the end.

Mr Boyle was overwhelmed with the "mad, pulsating response" his movie received.Ditto me.

 

Leaving aside Amitabh's comments (which are childish!!!) about “projecting slums” and “shining India’s underbelly” .......ufff....what he wants to showcase then, Pistol toting Deewar gangster crying for his mother’s love or one of his utterly stupid movies like Mahaan,Shaan...oh God! I am going to leave it at that.

 

Read on the article and make your own conclusions about Mr Bachchan’s comments .

 

Slumdog is a good movie ,it is gripping, and the performances are wonderful but, so is Company and so is Sathya (Mr Boyle has reportedly seen them prior to making SM)

 

I am very happy for the awards and for our very own first GG for AR Rehman who used music of M.I.A. beautifully (Hi all ,Listen to M.I.A. albums -"Arular" as well as "Kala",Cross genre ,hip hop ,dance whatever you want to call it ,Its simply great music with incendiary beats, mad vocals and an all around dance tone with lyrical intelligence.(Statutory Warning :many of the songs have musical potential of  becoming long lasting earworms)

At the end of it all, questions..................

 

Does SM deserve these awards and a GG especially?

 

Would it have received the same International recognition if it was directed by somebody like Benegal or RGV or Nihalani?

 

I remember Sush and Ash were hailed as galacticaly beautiful, tad at the same time when Coty,Revlon and big names in cosmetics  were entering India

(Now an Akshay Deepika flick is being produced by Warner Brothers. Am I sensing a conspiracy, Clever Marketing Ploy? White man is very good at that!!!)

 

All said and done I respect reality. Slums are out there and the things that go on there could be stranger than any fact fiction or film.Boyle or Ray hats off to them for showing  reality which we would otherwise never know.

 

 

 

Warmest Regards

Abhijeet Dudhagi

 

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New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle's Golden Globe award winning underdog drama 'Slumdog Millionaire' for showing India in poor light.

'If 'Slumdog Millionaire' projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,' Amitabh said in a posting on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com Wednesday from Paris, France.

'Its just that the 'Slumdog Millioanire' idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition,' he added.

The 66-year-old also talked about the changing trend in recognition of Indian cinema.

'The commercial escapist world of Indian cinema had vociferously battled for years, on the attention paid and the adulation given to the legendary Satyajit Ray... and not a word of appreciation for the entertaining mass-oriented box office blockbusters that were being churned out from Mumbai.

'Ray portrayed reality. While, the other - escapism, fantasy and incredulous posturing. Unimpressive for Cannes and Berlin and Venice (film festivals),' he explained.

He further wrote: 'But look how rapidly all that is changing. Dedicated TV channels running Hindi cinema on prime timings. Premieres at Leicester Square (referring to 'Chandni Chowk To China'), the home of all Hollywood royalty, thronged by hundreds on the street in cold biting weather.'