Slumdog Millionaire ... Lets Fact it

The movie created a buzz of sorts throughout the world and i want to add more to that buzz. Many noted Indian stupid journos have identified this movie as an Indian movie because they say it is Indian by heart .. ridiculous...these bunch of losers and suckers can do only one thing.. they cling on to the success stories and think they are also a success... First things first this is not an Indian movie. Its director and producers are all from Great britain. They have duly recognised the Indian story writer unlike their mentally retarted indian counterparts who are addicted to stealing stories and not crediting the knowledge of the person who wrote the story..Plagiarism is right in there.

The movie opens up with Jamal being interrogated by Irfan Khan and he explains to him how he has not cheated but has made up answers for the show Who wants to be a millionaire through his experiences. Many scenes are worth mentionining here especially the one where the couple of slum children(Jamal and Salim) are chased by the Inspector - The slum environment is beautifully captured on camera , the scene where Jamal goes and gets a glimpse of his favourite star Amitabh Bachan, fully covered with shit. The scene where the fellow beggar child is being deprived of his eyesight by Maman who captures children to use them for begging. The scene where Jamal offers 100$ to his former friend beggar. These are hard truths for a particular section of Indian society. Lets face it. I am not telling Danny did the best job in bringing these things on screen but he has done a good home work.

Then many directors of Indian origin have brought in more dimensions to many sections of society in their movies...very relevant to their times. But they never were hyped this much. Why? this question snares at me to be answered !!!

There was one scene in the movie where an American couple are robbed of their car parts (Believe me it happens in many places in India), the police man catches the guide boy Jamal and beats him. Jamal cries "THIS IS INDIA Madam". Madam from America gives him some dollars and says "THIS IS AMERICA". Then there is a scene that shows pro hindutva groups kill a woman of other religion. This is reason enough for american chamchaas the desi puppets of America - the Congress and its multitude of boot licking media men(like ibnlive and other bull shit news companies) to go hoho about this movie. Rajiv Masand the self proclaimed best critic year after year from ibnlive sponsored award functions has went ahead and given a thumbs up and a rating of 4 for this movie(he usually does if the movie endorses a lot of congress policies ... sorry for using the blog to tell this but thats the truth ... lets fact it - ). He is someone I wud call a rather Obvious critic rather than an intellectual critic.

There were many glitches in the movie too. The little trio of Salim, Javed and Latika did a better job than the grown ones and somehow for Javed as age went on the acting skills reduced and others they maintained the acting skills). Now every movie wants to talk about the muslim who is affected due to riots and the muslims affected due to riots and the muslims affected due to riots (yes u read it thrice). Its like a fashion now to show the affected muslim to get critical acclaim from the chamchaa critics like Rajeev masand.

Danny boyle seemed to have been misdirected in some scenes to be frank. Senior Jamal could identify Salim through his voice after even not talking and seeing him for many years.He works as a Chai-wallah and he searches for Salim malik in the Call center personal's desktop application that keeps a record of all phone numbers and he finds hardly 15-20 Salim Malik's and one of them is (alas such a thriller story), his brother.

Then there is the end scene where Salim puts in all the money he has earned on a bath tub and sleeps on that and waits for the rowdy to come in and kill him .. u see it shows the passion for money that turned out his life and now will turn on his death. Looked a bit amateaurish.

Then there is a scene where the sub teen Salim and Jamal barge into notorious Maman's brothel and try to kidnap Latika but Maman comes there and asks them ."Did you really think, you can come here and take away that girl so easily".. It was logical since 2 small children could not do that.. but the logic is broken when you are shown that they not only they barge into Maman's brothel but also kill him before his men and escape unhurt into a 5 star hotel that is built near by without getting noticed. Remember they are the kids.

Then there is this scene where Jamal tries to enter the house of notorious Javed and Latika to talk and elope with Latika. She instantly recognises him as her boy when she was too young (Cinematic license granted). Jamal is stopped by the watchman but Jamal says he has come as a servant but watchman turns him saying there is no need for a servant and they have actually asked for a dishwasher.. Jamal laughs and says "Yeah Dishwasher" and the watchman allows him..

Overall it is an average movie. Lets fact it .. its just above average movie. Certainly high on technical content like Camera work, Music and Editing - to be watched out for in the Oscars but acting and screenplay was average.Direction - just about average.

And for the hype - it has missed the justice for the hype by a whisker.

Put your comments down on the movie and not on my views and on me okie.

Trip to Blue Mountains - Sydney - Part I

Blue Mountains - That myriad place where every wannabe traveller freak in Sydney wants to be at. To be photographed. To be exhausted after a trek like experience (not trekking you nerd,its trek like ok) , To enjoy a beautiful drive , Ofcourse as in every place of Sydney To See some beautiful scenaries (now thats only scenaries ok now bcoz i am a gentle man with a beeer gold heart sorry puure gold heart)

So we started off with 2 cars both having navigators(Now Dont ask me the dates of the journey i never remember my dates i mean the dates) . They took us towards the blue mountains (or hills or rocks ..eh ..oh.. leave it they call it blue mountains) Somewhere 10 kms before the destination our navigators shows us 2 directions one car went in one direction and other car went in other direction (Yaah it was a navigator's problem not the driver's problem remember i am a software engineer). We lost each other's sight and we made frantic calls to the other car people and they were clueless of the place so we went here and there and here and there and oooh at last we found each other then we set off for that wonderful journey and we saw a dead end and that too in a Highway ... this is terrific we thought (dead end because of a road construction under way so no vehicles allowed that way) we stopped the cars had some snacks and definitely no cigarretes and drinks(shud i remind u i have a beeer gold heart sorry puure gold heart).

We then took a u turn and went through a small pass through gully and reached the drivable highway path and hurree we are on track. We reached the Gordon falls and went for a small walk (small if you think 3 kms is small) and they said that was the most splendid view of a waterfall they have ever seen (AAAH I was getting sleep but i am also in the group so i said wahwahwah) . It was ofcourse beautiful not that i have never seen anything like that(Comon growup hippies i am a trekking freak.. i have trekked the entire world and i have seen a whole range of falls in my life)

Then we started off for the scenic viewing near the 3 sisters . That was the end of the begining. Sky started throwing its tears on the laps of mother earth and we started getting wet (remember we r not in car we have to cover a small distance of 3 kms). Perfect I said to myself.

We still did not lose courage and went and sat inside our jeep and car and rain stopped we thought we have to continue our journey. We reached 3 sisters within an hour and we got down the cars and the Sky does not like that and he starts crying again and Mother Earth takes him in her lap I get furious but no way i have to continue my journey.

We went in the rain took some photos and snacks and yes you guessed it right no cigarrettes and no drinks. We had some good time (Q: Without a gal frend how can you have a good time? Ans) Me telling very bad words to my friend and he telling very very bad words to me..grrrr)

We then started off to see Jenolan caves and yes perfect we started at 4:15 and everything closes in this part of world by 4:00 P.M and so we got back to Sydney as we did not want to stay there for the night as we have to go for a bigger ride the next day at the office.(A much bigger ride indeed) ... There ends the part I (1) of our journey ....

End of the day - we are happy for having spent some good moments Part 2 will continue...