Well, i don’t think this film has its heart at the right place.
Mixed reactions, to be precise. A film well put together, i must say, … story, actor choices, direction, music, editing, … all above average, outside the 3-sigma level ( can’t resist 
), especially the fourth one outside the 6-sigma lim (here i’m at it again !), as is typical of dear A.R.R.
But … um, there always remains a but. I don’t want to watch this film again, unlike my gut feelings after i saw TZP or Dasvidaniya, or, to talk of Hollywood, say Memento or Dark Knight. This one’ll go down as many other films isaw and forgot, maybe with an added Oscar zing … “Slumdog what ? oh, the film which got A.R. two Oscars ?” ( Surely, he’ll get at least one.) Bas, that’s the only reason my brain’d distinguish it from the umpteen other movies seen. Sorry Mr. Danny Boyle. You did show us a part of ‘the real america’, but you didn’t fully show them a part of the real India.
You may argue, it got FOUR golden globes, after all. Well, one’s due to A.R., and , hm, … i don’t know how much credibility a f**kin’ award like this holds, which gives this movie a ‘best drama film’ award, handing a trash like Vicky Cristina Barcelona the one for best comedy (maybe just coz Woody Allen directed it) ! I mean, c’mon, at least you should swap their categories !!
P.S. Maybe by now you’re concluding i don’t know a hang ’bout films. Well, i can’t help it.
Posted by juturna on February 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm
long time… i have to agree… was blown away by slumdog – mostly by the shocking truthfulness of the script but it didn’t have the quality to make me watch it again…
that apart, how’ve you been? time’s flying like anything – half of fourth sem already past
Posted by the7new7ramanujan on February 10, 2009 at 5:44 pm
yes, time flies …
this is a sem when every isi-an thinks ‘why’ve i got into isi ?’ it’s a sem custom-made for muggu-s