Hello everybody...
I wish to comment on some of the films that I have watched in 2009... Since this blog has been created recently, some of the movies I may comment seems to be comparitively old... Plz note that these films are commented not on the order in which they are released, but the order in which I watched them... Plz don get displeased by these stuffs.. I don always get many other topics to blog frequently...
I remember that the first commentable film that I watched this year was the 'Slumdog millionaire'... We Indians could never forget that film for its many oscars... It was the first time a bollywood film(it can be considered as such eventhough the production part is mainly from western) is getting this much appreciation from the world.. A 'die-hard' AR's fan like me could never forget the moment when the music legend got honoured for his original score for the 'Jai Ho' song in the film... First let me speak a few words about the film... The film was directed by the British director Danny Boyle.. Its main cast include Dev Patel as the slumboy 'Jamal', the protagonist, Frieda Pinto, as the heroine, Irfan Khan, as the investigating officer and Anil Kapoor as the 'KBC'-show host... The film was a very good and entertaining film...
What I still wonder is how it got so much of international applause... It was like 'just-a-bollywood masala' movie, with all its recipies.... Ofcourse, it was a great movie, but not the best of all... It had some gaps and flaws which was not worthy for a film that won golden globes and several oscars.. I don wish to point to the fact that it visualized India as a third world kind because for the realistic approach, it was indeed necessary... The slum boys speaking english witha an accent while the other educated Indians acting in it including the police officers and the KBC host speaking 'Indian' english may be a small factor to consider... But the greatest flaw in the film is too much help from the destiny that the protogonist Jamal receives throughout, which may not have been considered as too much realistic by most of the film critics...
Another thing that affected the realistic nature of the film is the casting of a very famous and sponsored TV show host to be an egoistic person... Anil Kapoor, who plays the role of th KBC host and its producer, often calls Jamal as 'chaiwala' very sarcastically... I wonder where on the hell can you find a TV anchor to be that much rude.. He even tries to make Jamal get out of his show by trying to make him say a wrong answer... He is the one who hand over Jamal to police thinking him to be a fraud(U can also see Anil uttering 'after all its my f--king show').. U can never see a host or a producer of a reality show with millions of viewers and where sponsors actually lavish crores of rupees, to be this much harsh...
Danny could have done a bit more of thinking on those factors... Why should the producer worry about money to be given to the winner and more importantly, the winner's dignity, when he gets lot more through the sponsorships... And remember how strong are the medias, in India.. such happenings could be the 'all-time favourites' breaking news for them.... Imagine how adversly it could affect the show... And in the last part of the film, it is unclear what Anil's state of mind is when a 'chaiwala' took away 20 billions from his show... These many things in the film really did lack realism... yet, astonishingly, it became a much better appettite for majority of the film critics...
When I come to the positive side of the film, I should say that it certainly had more positive aspects than negative... The music is a factor to consider... I won't say that it was the 'master's' masterpice... But he certainly deserves an oscar... Anyway, a standing ovation for the living legend.. Other great things about the movie include its direction and cinematography... both have been done excellently well... Except for the little gaps and flaws in the film, Danny did a great work.... I liked it more with the eye of a normal bollywood film lover, than a realistic film lover... It is a gud movie to watch, but not the best of the lot... I will give 3 stars out of 5 for this...