Comments on: Poor Chunks Of India Really Hate Slumdog Millionaire

By: buggerrred

buggerrred — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:03:50 +0000

what a crap review,unfunny toss.

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:53:07 +0000

Cannot believe how insensitive this article. The link about dog marriages was uncalled for, and makes one wonder if this whole article was just an excuse to poke fun at Indian customs. And the references to Indians are archaic and deliberately loaded with Empire-era connotations. The “natives of India?” As if “East Indians” wasn’t archaic enough (there is really only one definition of ‘Indian’ – people from the Indian subcontinent. West Indians, American Indians – these are not ‘Indians’), deliberately using the word “natives” to describe poor, working-class Indian people and then poke fun at their supposed ignorance and supposedly backward customs is extremely disrespectful and appalling. The new racism of your writers is disgusting. Grow the fuck up, Hecklerspray.

By: Slamdog

Slamdog — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:42:40 +0000

Dallas Says:

January 23rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
“East Indians” – who says that????
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errrrr… haven’t you heard of “West Indians”? i.e. Indians from the Carribien, “West Indies”?. To differentiate between the 2 groups.

And I agree with Indian wholeheartdly. The condencending put downs of a show host towards a slum dweller is very Westernish. Infact I’ve seen rickshawallas on Salman Khan’s shows get the maximum respect.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:02:10 +0000

It’s not just a movie. Its the only impression that many people get of India. It’s a joke to say that it’s only a movie. Specially for the West, many people don’t receive any education about other cultures other than from television. As such, it’s important to avoid stereotypes and blatant lies about an entire culture. I am not Indian but I know the film inaccurately portrayed Indian culture.

By: Gingerchat

Gingerchat — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:37:48 +0000

It is just a movie; watch it, forget it.

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:40:29 +0000

Well said “Indian”. The only point I would differ everyone has problems. A problem is a perception of a person loking at it. If the whole world lived in slums, would this even be a question? What if 25 years later they started living on Moons? Would that make earth a slum?

My point is that we don’t have to prove anything to anyone, especially West. Indian is a older, more stable, more vibrant and more diverse society that has been around for 8000 years without a break. It will chalk out its own course, its own rules and its own fundamentals. Why try and imitate western stereotype of the first world vision?

By: Indian

Indian — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:54:07 +0000

The depiction of slums is not the issue here and we Indians most humbly accept our shortcoming ,infact I enjoyed the movie as a form of creative art ,but the problem starts with the stereotyping of the class conflict …..see anil kapoor taunting jamal on his slum back ground and him being a chai wala and more over the audience guffawing in that ugly way in response….wait a minute ..,can you imagine amitabh bacchan letting go such a volley of abuses .Anil does it not in a typical direct way but in a way which says much more than it appears to naked eyes .I dont think that was in good taste ..that brings out the primitive western instincts ,as the saviors of moral uprightness .a colonial hangover that never lets go..and the stereotyping of indians and more so as the inhabitants of the subcontinent .We dont disagree with the fact that there is class conflict ,but it exists in every civilisation to a certain extent ,thankfully our constitution strictly prohibits such discrimination on a public medium like television.We own up to our poverty ,our poor health services ,our corruption ,our politics.. we are trying to improve things and are increasingly successfull.To sum it up I would quote the director of “Dharavi ” who talks about this BBC documentary being filmed during the course of of filming Dharavi .He was requested to help the BBC crew around dharavi .He says during a shot inside a hut one of the BBC crew comes screaming “stop…..theres a telivision set inside”….A telivision set is out of place in a slum ……..! Somebody said journalism? Infact journalism with a script…This hasnt stopped us getting this far…. we have a long way to go and we assure the west , we will be there ….where no BBC ,danny boyle script can think of ….in no time… !till than ride Tatas jaguar and Rovers ….our day will be when we see these in our countryside ..the common man being able to afford them.. Jai Hind.

By: Mumbai

Mumbai — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:05:43 +0000

Boyle has really done a good job with this movie. While the movie deals with the gory details of the underbelly of Mumbai, it doesnt really leave you with a sick feeling. The story feels like a commentary and at the end you just feel good about the whole movie. Very well done I must say.

The music score by Rehman is amazing, the actors who played junior Jamal and Salim were the real stars. They were simply too good.

I thought Freida Pinto was overhyped. I think she had just 15 mins of screen presence in the whole movie.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:44:09 +0000

“East Indians” – who says that????