Comments on: Slumdog’s controversies

By: Jojo’s World | Slums or Not ?

Jojo’s World | Slums or Not ? — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:20:47 +0000

[...] 2. My own post about the controversies going in name of Slumdog Millionare [...]

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:18:39 +0000

SDM is not comparable to quality of RDB

My Rating:

SDM – 4/5

RDB – 4.5/5

By: linjo

linjo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:08:59 +0000

@cyriac

No Not at all.. i think RDB has a more strong solid story than SDM.juts check the way they Blended the story,Old and new.Me also think that RDB was much much deserving Oscar than SDM!

By: Cyriac

Cyriac — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:21:30 +0000

These are unnecessary hypes. It is not a sarcasm, the story demands slums and poor environment, i dont think any one is trying to prove India is like what is shown in the movie.
But its a fact that some foreigners still when think of India have “this picture” in mind (atleast some of them).
What you have said is right, RDB’s direction might be better than SDM, because it has such opportunities, like past being shown during present events etc. But SDM is still better bcoz its a strong story compared to RDB.

By: linjo

linjo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:26:15 +0000

Here is an example,a film with similar background ,CITY OF GOD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

There is not that much big,but they’ve shown the dark side of Brazil slums.Kids become dreaded killers even at the age of 6-7.Some where we can find some similarities between Slumdog Millionare and City OF GOD.And city if god is a much reputed film(Eventhough didnt claim the oscar).And the success of Slumdog is nothing but the affection or curiosity of western towards Indian Slums.I found Taare Zameen pAr much better than slumDog.As far as rating scale is concerned,i would have given 3.8 for slumdog and 4.5 for Taare Zameen Par.But where is Taare Zameen Par?Didnt claim final nominations for even the best foreign language film!!?Sounds ODD right?

By: priyankeshu

priyankeshu — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:18:58 +0000

Arindhum Choudhary is very irresponsible in saying that..

He should know the fact that it was a story! HOW CAN YOU say that a story was wrong!!???

Can you think beyond branding and business? This was a movie guys.. everyone knows what India is… in fact in one part of the movie guy said that =”See this was the slum when we were small and today tall buildings INDIA IS CHANGING” how can people ignore that?

moreover even if you take a political stand on it.. i think that what was shown was not a “LIE”