[Assam] Slumdog - movie review vs. judgment of character

[Alpana B. Sarangapani]

Just to get off a few things off my chest. I'm no movie critic either.
 
Nevertheless, I thought Slumdog was an OK movie. Technically good, great AR Rehman stuff, but lacks that 'Wow! what a movie' at the end. 
Compare this movie (if one can) to movies like Gandhi, The Godfather, Cleopatra, even City of Joy - slumdog can't hold a candle to any of those movies.
 
It is also important, as sophisticated Assamnetters, that conclusions like 'weak Indians', or whatever, are not drawn just because some like the movie or others dislike the movie. IMHO - an argument on such basis is not just extraneous, but is also trying desparately to find reasons why anyone could not heap praises on the movie because every other Western reviewer and his uncle is going gaga over the movie.
 
City of Joy (COJ, 1992) - don't know if it won any accolades was a great movie, and it also had all the stuff that 'the not so weakminded Indians'  might love - poverty, crime, and struggle, the REAL INDIA. Was Slumdog better than COJ - I really don't think so. 
 
It just boggles the mind, why an individual can not just like or dislike a movie on what they see as merits or demirits of the movie without their character being questioned. 
 
 
 
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
 

“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.”
  
 
 
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