Slumdog Millionaire criticised by Bollywood star

// added January 15, 2009 // 4 comments //
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Amitabh Bachchan has criticised Danny Boyle's latest film Slumdog Millionaire for portraying India as the "third world dirty underbelly".
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4 comments // Slumdog Millionaire criticised by Bollywood star

  • Jonathonish
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      Jonathonish  

    • I for one loved this movie, but I don't think he was actually criticizing the film:

      "If SM (Slumdog Millionaire) projects India as [a] Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations," Mr Bachchan wrote in his blog.

      "It's just that the SM idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative [Golden] Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not."

    • 1 year ago
  • UWAZell
  • animalia_libero
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      animalia_libero  

    • I loved Slumdog Millionaire and it did not make me think of India as a third world underbelly. I've never been there, but people I know that have have loved it. There are poverty stricken parts and more developed parts from what I understand. Slumdog was about poverty stricken parts and was based on many things people have seen when they have visited there.

    • 1 year ago
  • Pettigrew
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      Pettigrew  
    • animalia_libero:

      one billion people live in India, 2/3's of them live under the poverty line, that means that 60% of the worlds poor people live there.

      but for some reason they can spend billions on a space programme, it doesn't seem that fair

    • 1 year ago
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