SLUMDAWG ZINDABAD !!!
EIGHT Oscars mate!...a yo ho ho and a bottle of rum for Danny Boyle...the Brit who finally got the "thing" abt film making in bollywood...thanx to him we saw the younger versions of Raj and Veeru scampering through the hinterlands on trains stealing their way to survival, a Tezaab like rescue sans motorbikes of a younger version of Madhuri from one of the hundreds of dreary brothels of mumbai...and over and all a much more colorful and musical portrayal of the misery of our poor country than the previous award winning versions like Salaam Bombay and City of Joy. and we Indians never tire to take credit for someone else's work. If we thought the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Television of America has gone over the top with Slumdog, then please let us not forget the wallahoo we are making over a British film. of course it brought international honours for a couple of technicians trained in India, but seriously how much honour had we their fellow countrymen given them before this? And also,please spare me the obligation of bending myself over with gratitude for an Academy that is yet to honour their own excellent "white trash" character protrayals... be it Jack Sparrow or the Wrestler...as always the Academy got away with being squeaky clean and politically correct. Bravo Tuxedoes..!!
But guess what, this time around we actually had singing and dancing and drums and half naked men and women dancing on the crystalline stage of the GREAT KODAK THEATRE. and AR RAHMAN singing the third national anthem of India, after Jana Gana Mana and Kajra re (coz, everyone used to and still does to some extent stand up when it starts playing) - i thought i was watching film fare 2009, matlab, Will Smith gave away awards in both the ceremonies yaar...!!
So is the American film industry shifting to a more stylised mode of film making acceptable to the huge south asian market dominated by the song-and-dance-and-happy-endings loving Indian audience? hopefully not.because the Indian audience is not as shallow as the marketwallahs want to beleive us to be. Otherwise Anurag Kashyap wouldnt have been making a pretty good living down here. though we have not seen a huge american hit in india since LOTR 2 left our screens, and hardly any of the oscar winners get to spend more than a week in our multiplexes, still there are a few as always who would like to watch mickey rourkie's incredible performance and the excellent technical work done on Wall-E and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Anyways, Danny Boyle believed in what he was doing. otherwise none of us would have raised our eyebrows so many times while watching the movie and still kept watching it. Till the very end. But I still want to know the good name of the eldest Salim. He did give a swashbuckling performance. Hope to see you in many such performances my dear man.
Take care and until next time...
JAI HO!
But guess what, this time around we actually had singing and dancing and drums and half naked men and women dancing on the crystalline stage of the GREAT KODAK THEATRE. and AR RAHMAN singing the third national anthem of India, after Jana Gana Mana and Kajra re (coz, everyone used to and still does to some extent stand up when it starts playing) - i thought i was watching film fare 2009, matlab, Will Smith gave away awards in both the ceremonies yaar...!!
So is the American film industry shifting to a more stylised mode of film making acceptable to the huge south asian market dominated by the song-and-dance-and-happy-endings loving Indian audience? hopefully not.because the Indian audience is not as shallow as the marketwallahs want to beleive us to be. Otherwise Anurag Kashyap wouldnt have been making a pretty good living down here. though we have not seen a huge american hit in india since LOTR 2 left our screens, and hardly any of the oscar winners get to spend more than a week in our multiplexes, still there are a few as always who would like to watch mickey rourkie's incredible performance and the excellent technical work done on Wall-E and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Anyways, Danny Boyle believed in what he was doing. otherwise none of us would have raised our eyebrows so many times while watching the movie and still kept watching it. Till the very end. But I still want to know the good name of the eldest Salim. He did give a swashbuckling performance. Hope to see you in many such performances my dear man.
Take care and until next time...
JAI HO!
Comments
Lol to Filmfare 2009, Amen to Anurag Kashyap, man who made something as whacky and fabulous as DevD..