And this one is linked off HK where the comment referred to it as "Notable director from Kerala Shri.Priyadarshan had given his views on this lousy movie and it's certainly a nice one."
A Malayalee director on the SlumMovie. Note particularly the latest two christo comments.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?opt...id=1&issueid=94
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Itâs mediocre at best</b>
Priyadarshan
India Today expert view on
Column: Itâs mediocre at best
Letâs get this straight. I have no problem with Slumdog Millionaire shooting the slums of Mumbai. I have an issue with its version of realism. Jamal is electrocuted all night and in the morning heâs as fresh as a daisy? Amitabh Bachchanâs chopper has no other place to land than in the shitpots of Juhu? And you call that a riot? Itâs as if it was photographed by a child. The entire movie has been badly shot.
The compositions are bad, the tones are poor. I think movies such as Shankarâs Nayak, Mani Ratnamâs Bombay and Ram Gopal Varmaâs Satya have shot slums much better. What saved the film is A.R. Rahmanâs score which is rooted in India and Resul Pookuttyâs sound effects which have got everything right, from the soundscape of Mumbai trains to the voices in the crowd. And what is it about our culture?
When a foreigner calls us slumdogs, we listen? And when an Indian calls a barber by his name, we protest? Itâs nothing but a mediocre Bollywood film, which has used references from several Hindi films very smartly.
And itâs because every country sends its best films to the Oscar except us. What do we send? Eklavya. All the Academy wants is drama that hits the heart directly. which we donât give them. If Slumdog Millionaire is winning accolades internationally it is only because they know no better. India is not Somalia.
We are one of the foremost nuclear powers in the world, our satellites are roaming the universe. Our police commissionerâs offices donât look like shacks and there are no blind children begging in the streets of Mumbai. This is absolute and intentional exploitation of India.
âThe writer is a well-known Indian filmmaker<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The christo comments.
Check out the auto-regurgitation of the descriptions of the Godhra riots which christo TV channels got from supposedly 'actual perpetrators' who were of course never taken away by the police for their public - even if scripted - confessions to horrific crimes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Posted by: <b>Robert</b> (brownbear1985@yahoo.com)
USA | February 24, 2009 | 01:39 IST
Wow, a Bollywood director complaining about a lack of realism? And then stating there are no blind children begging on Mumbai's streets? How do you get around Mumbai, Priyadarshan? Via magic carpet? Bollywood people are always complaining that the Oscars don't pay any attention to India--then when attention IS paid, Bollywood people claim they don't care! Sounds like sour grapes or jealousy to me. And please, to act as if Bollywood technology is for the most part anything but laughable--that is most certainly not "realism." And for the commenter who wrote about the "disasterous ideologies" opf the west,what about the Gujarat riots, cutting foetuses out of Muslim women before they were burned alive? If Hinduism is so "self-sufficient" what is the Shiv Sena doing conducting pograms against migrant workers from the south? A little more realism here if you please.
(Uh, the christo-congress minion Raj Thackeray was conducting pogr<b>o</b>ms against N Indians.)
Posted by: <b>Aries (arian</b>@rocketmail.com)
Mumbai | February 22, 2009 | 02:47 IST
Looks like Priyadarshan comes from a different India from that I know. There is nothing in the movie that is exagerated. Reality is much worse.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(These guys should stop stealing the names of Greco-Roman Gods (Aries) and stick solely to names like 'arian' from the 4th century christocult of arianism instituted by arian.)
But yeah, the "reality is much worse": the mental slum created by christianism is inconceivable. All that lying creates a bog that drowns any independent thought.
At least Kazhakstanis protested Borat - even though that was a comedy and only really made fun of the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of AmeriKKKans, not really aimed at Kazhakstanis (no one outside of Kazhakstan would have for a moment thought the film was realistic about its inhabitants, whereas the AmeriKKKans in the movie were caught on candid camera). Meanwhile Indians fall all over themselves about this british movie which has something or other to do with some fictional India.
Priyadarshan: "India is not Somalia."
Apparently not. Somalians I am sure have some self-respect.
A Malayalee director on the SlumMovie. Note particularly the latest two christo comments.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?opt...id=1&issueid=94
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Itâs mediocre at best</b>
Priyadarshan
India Today expert view on
Column: Itâs mediocre at best
Letâs get this straight. I have no problem with Slumdog Millionaire shooting the slums of Mumbai. I have an issue with its version of realism. Jamal is electrocuted all night and in the morning heâs as fresh as a daisy? Amitabh Bachchanâs chopper has no other place to land than in the shitpots of Juhu? And you call that a riot? Itâs as if it was photographed by a child. The entire movie has been badly shot.
The compositions are bad, the tones are poor. I think movies such as Shankarâs Nayak, Mani Ratnamâs Bombay and Ram Gopal Varmaâs Satya have shot slums much better. What saved the film is A.R. Rahmanâs score which is rooted in India and Resul Pookuttyâs sound effects which have got everything right, from the soundscape of Mumbai trains to the voices in the crowd. And what is it about our culture?
When a foreigner calls us slumdogs, we listen? And when an Indian calls a barber by his name, we protest? Itâs nothing but a mediocre Bollywood film, which has used references from several Hindi films very smartly.
And itâs because every country sends its best films to the Oscar except us. What do we send? Eklavya. All the Academy wants is drama that hits the heart directly. which we donât give them. If Slumdog Millionaire is winning accolades internationally it is only because they know no better. India is not Somalia.
We are one of the foremost nuclear powers in the world, our satellites are roaming the universe. Our police commissionerâs offices donât look like shacks and there are no blind children begging in the streets of Mumbai. This is absolute and intentional exploitation of India.
âThe writer is a well-known Indian filmmaker<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The christo comments.
Check out the auto-regurgitation of the descriptions of the Godhra riots which christo TV channels got from supposedly 'actual perpetrators' who were of course never taken away by the police for their public - even if scripted - confessions to horrific crimes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Posted by: <b>Robert</b> (brownbear1985@yahoo.com)
USA | February 24, 2009 | 01:39 IST
Wow, a Bollywood director complaining about a lack of realism? And then stating there are no blind children begging on Mumbai's streets? How do you get around Mumbai, Priyadarshan? Via magic carpet? Bollywood people are always complaining that the Oscars don't pay any attention to India--then when attention IS paid, Bollywood people claim they don't care! Sounds like sour grapes or jealousy to me. And please, to act as if Bollywood technology is for the most part anything but laughable--that is most certainly not "realism." And for the commenter who wrote about the "disasterous ideologies" opf the west,what about the Gujarat riots, cutting foetuses out of Muslim women before they were burned alive? If Hinduism is so "self-sufficient" what is the Shiv Sena doing conducting pograms against migrant workers from the south? A little more realism here if you please.
(Uh, the christo-congress minion Raj Thackeray was conducting pogr<b>o</b>ms against N Indians.)
Posted by: <b>Aries (arian</b>@rocketmail.com)
Mumbai | February 22, 2009 | 02:47 IST
Looks like Priyadarshan comes from a different India from that I know. There is nothing in the movie that is exagerated. Reality is much worse.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(These guys should stop stealing the names of Greco-Roman Gods (Aries) and stick solely to names like 'arian' from the 4th century christocult of arianism instituted by arian.)
But yeah, the "reality is much worse": the mental slum created by christianism is inconceivable. All that lying creates a bog that drowns any independent thought.
At least Kazhakstanis protested Borat - even though that was a comedy and only really made fun of the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of AmeriKKKans, not really aimed at Kazhakstanis (no one outside of Kazhakstan would have for a moment thought the film was realistic about its inhabitants, whereas the AmeriKKKans in the movie were caught on candid camera). Meanwhile Indians fall all over themselves about this british movie which has something or other to do with some fictional India.
Priyadarshan: "India is not Somalia."
Apparently not. Somalians I am sure have some self-respect.