The entire Indian film industry has gone ecstatic over the clean sweep of Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscar's today. The celebrities are now coming out with their congratulatory messages and Kamal Haasan is one among the early birds to wish the Mozart of Madras.
The actor had said he felt like he was walking along with A.R. Rahman on stage to collect the award. According to Kamal Haasan, he always found Rahman to be very simple and .
uncomplicated. The actor added that he was proud and happy as an Indian for Rahman's fete
The Ulaganayagan, while talking about the musical genius's humility, recalled an incident during the Marmayogi project. Kamal pointed out that while he was going gaga over a song composition for the film, Rahman was calm and composed.
Kamal said that Oscars is not like Olympics because each entry is judged based on American standards and not on universal standards. "It is good that Indians are doing well and they cannot be ignored at the Oscars anymore", the star added.
The actor had said he felt like he was walking along with A.R. Rahman on stage to collect the award. According to Kamal Haasan, he always found Rahman to be very simple and .
uncomplicated. The actor added that he was proud and happy as an Indian for Rahman's fete
The Ulaganayagan, while talking about the musical genius's humility, recalled an incident during the Marmayogi project. Kamal pointed out that while he was going gaga over a song composition for the film, Rahman was calm and composed.
Kamal said that Oscars is not like Olympics because each entry is judged based on American standards and not on universal standards. "It is good that Indians are doing well and they cannot be ignored at the Oscars anymore", the star added.
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This great actor - Kamal longed through out his life for an Oscar, hope he gets one before he retires from the industry...
Why no Indian should feel proud of
Slum Dog Millionaire??
The reason is very simple. This is an English movie produced
and directed by white skin people to expose the real India.
Some developed countries still think India is a poor country with malnutrition, malaria, Tuberculosis, female feticides, child marriage, and land of snake charmers, mysterious saints, and God men. Just to show the out side world India continues to be the same what it was ,this picture was made with the support of some idiotic Indians. It shows slums where poor people live near multistoried buildings, police punishes the minority community for nothing, there is no rule, no human rights, TV channels are corrupt, and the greatest blunder is the person who does the show “Who wants to be a billionaire?” had to pay the prize money but it’s the organizer of the show who pays it??
Some years back Many Indian ladies won the Miss World or Miss Universe crown. Why you know?? Many multinationals wanted to sell their beauty products in India.
George Bush said Indians and Chinese people are eating too much that’s why there is shortage of food in the world!! Just to prove he was right this movie/DVD was made so that it can win more than half a dozen of awards.
Better pictures like Chakra, Guide, Ganga Jamuna, Jisdeshmein ganga bahati hai,Sadma never got any recognition because there were no white people involved in it. Gandhi got many because it was produced and directed by white people. Why no body mentions the name of Apurba Bir who was a photographer of Gandhi picture, Ms:Rohini Hatangandi and Fashion designer and many others?? People have a short memory.
Indian should feel proud when a movie produced, directed and acted by Indians with out the support of white people gets an Oscar.
This picture called “Dirty Indians” sorry “SLUM DOG MILLIONER” has projected
my mother India as a country of corruptions and poverty to get the recognition of the Oscar people.
Congratulations Mr.Danny Boyle, one thing is sure you are going to be a billionaire and the slums in India and USA will continue to grow.
Now you can produce a movie called “Church Burning” and win more prizes next year..
I do kind of agree with you.
I do agree with what sanjoy.satpathy said but isnt it the truth that has been shown in the movie.
Yeah. We cant hide the truth. And whats there to be ashamed of. India is what India is regardless of what the world thinks. If we dont want the world to see the real India, we need to kick ourselves on our own backside and improve our conditions in our country. Dont we?
This article is classic example of "defensive reasoning". Forget about subjective arguments and look at statistics about Indian cities. 25% of India's urban population lives in slums , Bombay tops at around 40%. Hence what this movie portray is a sizable problem of the urban population.
The more important fact is that the middle class and above population has learned to ignore them, when they think of india, they subtract all these people from their equations and then feel proud of their country.
I do agree. sanjoy.satpathy, there is no point pointing fingers at others saying they show India bad. Instead if you can please start helping the poor and try to eradicate poverty and slums..... Then, you will be the real hero who deserves a padmashri
this is not the real India....firstly India cannot be described by showing one city...India is so diverse, you cannot show it in one movie, if real India needs to be projected....if they want to show the slums in India...they should first watch some old movies such as Abhimanyu, Aryan(malayalam), where poverty is shown, still there is dignity
People who have a very appreciative approach for "Slumdog Millenier", Just put your hand on your heart and tell, do they really believe that it was the best composition of Rehman ? or do they really believe that "Slumdog Millenier" is Better than "Lagaan", "TJP", "Mumbai Meri Jaan" or "A Wednesday".
I am sure most of you would say a big "NO".
This movie is only getting appreciation because it has been made by someone from outside of India.
I agree that outside India people are thinking that there is so much poverty, corruption...Is that not true? Just because it is made by a white guy and he is getting appreciation in his own country why such opposition. Atleast he did something for the two kids who were in the movie who are really from slums (taking them to the award ceremony, to the Oscars giving them the memorable happiness for lifetime). Do you think that some other director (even Indian) would do that?
mozart wrote over 40 symphonies, string quartets piano sonatas etc. do not compare a keyboard player (not even a piano) who writes cheap melodies in a pop style with a classical great. Rahmans last a short time. Mozart has survived centuries. your hubris is over the top. the oscars are about movie biz politics in case you are so naive, which it seems the country is!
india is full of poverty to the western eye. thats why they could relate to the movie stupid
How dare someone compare the MD of SM to Mozart!
The country is witnessing a sea change in its way of treating great people.Not really great but created by the forces controlling the media.Indians can never be Americans and vice versa.Let this MD get an oscar for a purely Indian movie and we can accept the claims.That can never happen.Piggy riding on some one's death wish movie he could garner the glory.Shameful.And as Kamal has rightly put it can this genious compose and compete with the greats of this world. It won't ever happen.So the hype by media and ignorant fame hungry Indians are not doing any justice to the Indian Music.
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