Yes, I did read the book sometime in 2007 or early 08..Vikas Swarup the author has done a fantastic job threading emotions (happiness, remorse, comedy, freedom..)thru the stories, that land the protagonist his answers..truly well written.
I ended up recommending this book to friends and family. My dad-in-law said "..one of the best works he has read".
The movie as most movies based on books are, doesn't do justice to the book at all
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Seems someone else also agrees to 'patriotic view' ...
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle's Golden Globe award winning underdog drama "Slumdog Millionaire" for showing India in poor light.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Big_B_slams_Slumdog_Millionaire_on_blog/articleshow/3979601.cms
But I look at his view as 'Angoor Khatte Hai' ... He is talking as if he never acted in a movie which "projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation"
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Posted on: 15-01-09 07:41:45
Amitabh can eat his heart out!
Did you folks see the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday? Dev and Frieda were on it. Kewl! Way to hustle.
They ended with all the crew of the show doing a Bollywood dance and Dev couldn't move for nuts!
They changed the story in the movie . I liked the story in the book hence was disappointed by the movie.
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Seems someone else also agrees to 'patriotic view' ...
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle's Golden Globe award winning underdog drama "Slumdog Millionaire" for showing India in poor light.
Amitabh is way past 60 and has completely lost his sanity. He has become an attention grabber by giving statements like
- His rugrat was near the Delhi bomb blast site
- After terrorist attack on Bombay, he sleeps with a gun under his pillow
Who gives a damn about what Amitabh has to say
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They changed the story in the movie . I liked the story in the book hence was disappointed by the movie.
It happens with most of the movies. They can hardly fit the whole story in a 2 hour movie. Other examples being
- Jurassic Park & Lost World - those books by Michael Crichton are way entertaining than the movie itself
- Da Vinci Code
- Runaway Jury
The only instance of the picturisation being as interesting as the movie itself is the TV show "Mr Yogi", which was based on a Gujarati novel "Kimble Ravenswood". Although Ketan Mehta had taken lots of liberty with novel, the TV show and novel are both enjoyable in their own way.
Bachan does what Bachan does best - please Indian audiences. And that too these days is still the wave he's riding from his success in the past. His bounce back after failed business ventures is admirable.
But...but...but...he is no longer contemporary when it comes to art and cinema in its true sense. He still plays it safe. And he is a tad out of touch. His reaction is the automatic "emotional reaction" of the public. "Oh my God....white guys portrayed India in bad light". Oh yeah? Why don't you go examine the filth that pours out of Bollywood all year long? Any one of those represent India in true light?
What does Bachan want? Oscar nomination for Shahenshah? Dumb moron....
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Posted on: 25-01-09 08:23:09
Many of you probably have read it.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090122/entertainment/entertainment_india_film_britain_justice_offbeat
NEW DELHI (AFP) - "Slumdog Millionaire," the runaway hit film that has charmed audiences around the world, seems to have hit a sour note with one Indian activist a day before its release in India.
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Tapeshwar Vishwakarma, representing a slum-dwellers' welfare group, is suing the film's music composer A.R. Rahman and one of its stars, actor Anil Kapoor, for depicting slum-dwellers in a bad light and violating their human rights.
Vishwakarma objected to the use of words such as "slumdogs" to describe the millions of inhabitants of India's cramped shantytowns, and filed a defamation case against the duo in the east Indian city of Patna, according to media reports Thursday.
His lawsuit alleges that the very name of the movie is derogatory and an affront to the dignity of India's many slum-dwellers.
The Golden Globe-winning film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young orphan from Mumbai who defies expectations to win the Indian version of the popular gameshow Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
It has won accolades in India and abroad, and is viewed as a possible contender for next month's Oscars.
Vishwakarma told the Times of India that he is only suing Kapoor and Rahman because they are more familiar to Indian audiences than the film's British director Danny Boyle.
"Vishwakarma made it clear that he hardly expected anything positive from a British filmmaker as their ancestors described us as 'dogs'," Vishwakarma's lawyer Shruti Singh told the Indo-Asian News Service.
"But what hurt him was that even Indians associated with the film hardly bothered to object to calling us a 'slumdog'."
The film's co-director Loveleen Tandon is quoted in the Mail Today newspaper as defending the movie, saying "the title is really not meant to be taken as insulting or offensive."
The Patna court will hear the case on February 5.
