I was shocked to see the newer version of Manmohan Desai’s Holly wood flick within first couple of days of its release .Its picturisation, dialogue & Rahman’s Non-Existent usual magic as a musician, ( editing.. placing of award winning song ’’ Jai ho’’ at the end of movie etc)was ordinary.
One thing is sure not all Oscar winning movies are worth our monies.Congratulation to the team ( especially to Director Danny Boyle, without whom this movie would not have been nominated , on this score Mr.Amitabh Bachchan was right).
Even BBC was making people understand 2 days ahead of Oscar ceremony, what it is like living in a Slum of Mumbai.Good Marketing Danny Boy & ’’ Shame Ho’’ to censure board for allowing this movie to be shown in India with all Indian Slangs in the Original Form.
I fear a couple of Hollywood production houses might have started scrambling around the slums of Kolkata /Mumbai/Delhi/Chennai/Agra/Bhopal, and might have already worked on the script based on of books of like " City of Joy" etc. for 2010 Oscar.On the lighter side of this, if Slums of India can make people Millionaire, imagine what will its Palaces do ?
Hope Ashutosh Gowartikar’s must not fall in line with these mentality, after all film is not to be seen as a documentary.Madhur Bhandarkar is there for this, who gives more realistic treatment to the contemporary events/social evils.