01-23-2009, 06:26 AM
Slumdog Millionaire got 10 Oscar nominations. Indian press is so happy. Little are people realizing that the movie got its nomination because it insults Hindus and Indians.
Simon Beaufoy (the director) and Danny Boyle have taken a few very questionable liberties with the script (Q & A by Vikas Swarup). In the original book the hero was no Muslim. He was a true Indian with a Hindu-Muslim-Christian name. Not only did Danny make the hero a muslim, he introduced the scene of a Hindu mob killing Jamal Malik's (hero's) mother, without showing the bomb blasts that occurred earlier. For the untrained and uninitiated Western eye it seems as if Hindus woke up one day and decided to go on a "Muslim-hunt". Why did Danny change the script and show Hindus killing Muslims? Don't you smell a rat here??
Here's a link to an Economic Times interview with Vikas Swarup which confirms my statements Vikas Swarup Interview
I know a petition is started against some aspects of this movie at Slumdog petition. But I think something more has to be done to protest Danny showing Hinduism in a poor light.
Simon Beaufoy (the director) and Danny Boyle have taken a few very questionable liberties with the script (Q & A by Vikas Swarup). In the original book the hero was no Muslim. He was a true Indian with a Hindu-Muslim-Christian name. Not only did Danny make the hero a muslim, he introduced the scene of a Hindu mob killing Jamal Malik's (hero's) mother, without showing the bomb blasts that occurred earlier. For the untrained and uninitiated Western eye it seems as if Hindus woke up one day and decided to go on a "Muslim-hunt". Why did Danny change the script and show Hindus killing Muslims? Don't you smell a rat here??
Here's a link to an Economic Times interview with Vikas Swarup which confirms my statements Vikas Swarup Interview
I know a petition is started against some aspects of this movie at Slumdog petition. But I think something more has to be done to protest Danny showing Hinduism in a poor light.