Comments on: Why Slumdog can irk an Indian http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350 Wide Screen Journal Editors' Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Quadras http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350&cpage=1#comment-546 Quadras Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:04:27 +0000 http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350#comment-546 Its nice<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('546','Quadras'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('546','Quadras','Its nice'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Its nice
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]]> By: Mallika http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350&cpage=1#comment-526 Mallika Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:07:13 +0000 http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350#comment-526 I lost all respect for the film the moment the kids land in Agra, have grown up a little, started speaking polished English, and are recognizably from the Kisan ( or the horlicks?) advertisement. It was just a downward spiral post this point. The energy, 'truth', and the on screen brilliance created by those little children, was all washed down. I do think that the anger should first and foremost be directed at ourselves since a 'brown' man wrote the book. I am told that the original names its protagonist Ram Rahman Joseph or something like that. How secular! If at all, the white man cleaned up his story a bit. Having said that, I really think that they should have thought harder about how to make this film. While parts of the film are brilliant, others fall so badly that i wonder if the director decided to take a vacation in the middle? Or did he return from his vacation?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('526','Mallika'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('526','Mallika','I lost all respect for the film the moment the kids land in Agra, have grown up a little, started speaking polished English, and are recognizably from the Kisan ( or the horlicks?) advertisement. It was just a downward spiral post this point. The energy, \'truth\', and the on screen brilliance created by those little children, was all washed down. \r\n\r\nI do think that the anger should first and foremost be directed at ourselves since a \'brown\' man wrote the book. I am told that the original names its protagonist Ram Rahman Joseph or something like that. How secular! If at all, the white man cleaned up his story a bit. \r\n\r\nHaving said that, I really think that they should have thought harder about how to make this film. While parts of the film are brilliant, others fall so badly that i wonder if the director decided to take a vacation in the middle? Or did he return from his vacation?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I lost all respect for the film the moment the kids land in Agra, have grown up a little, started speaking polished English, and are recognizably from the Kisan ( or the horlicks?) advertisement. It was just a downward spiral post this point. The energy, ‘truth’, and the on screen brilliance created by those little children, was all washed down.

I do think that the anger should first and foremost be directed at ourselves since a ‘brown’ man wrote the book. I am told that the original names its protagonist Ram Rahman Joseph or something like that. How secular! If at all, the white man cleaned up his story a bit.

Having said that, I really think that they should have thought harder about how to make this film. While parts of the film are brilliant, others fall so badly that i wonder if the director decided to take a vacation in the middle? Or did he return from his vacation?

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]]> By: Kishore Budha http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350&cpage=1#comment-524 Kishore Budha Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:42:28 +0000 http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350#comment-524 @John Daniel: Could you enlighten further please?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('524','Kishore Budha'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('524','Kishore Budha','@John Daniel: Could you enlighten further please?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @John Daniel: Could you enlighten further please?
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]]> By: Kishore Budha http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350&cpage=1#comment-521 Kishore Budha Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:19:36 +0000 http://blogs.widescreenjournal.org/?p=1350#comment-521 Sensible words Kuhu.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('521','Kishore Budha'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('521','Kishore Budha','Sensible words Kuhu.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Sensible words Kuhu.
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