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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

nothing to do

ok .. i dont have much to write about for today .. have actually not done much for the last 2 days, apart from working on my sop(and that's the only good thing i have done in like a LONG while), watchin movies and chatting ..
ok . i watched slumdog millionaire and i guess despite the craze behind it and the imdb rankings, its just another movie .. nothing great .. maharathi was damn better but got no praise n got from theatres in a week or so.. anyways, it shows india like it is NOT. INDIA IS NOT LIKE the one shown in the movie. yes, i have seen the slums and know the happenings about the beggar system shown make real sense. but the apathy in which india is shown is not india .. india, after all is more diverse compared with mumbai and agra alone... there is much more delight in travelling on rail in india. india is shown to be a place for mercy, a dirt-haven and god knows what else. yes, dirtiness is an aspect prevalent here, but the whole movie could have been made more realistically rather than to remind the viewer that "look.. india is dirty". you can find more realistic shots showing the actual india and the beauty of it. . . even the language used (hindi abusive swearings) are common and of not much impact actually .. they've been thrown just for the sake of it (and to show that hindi is a bad language .. ). i guess thats why the 'firang' loved the movie (they got a chance to feel pity for us ..) and rated it so high.
am just comparing slumdog millionaire to city of god, a brilliant movie showing the dirtiness, earthiness and anything bad in the most beautiful manner i've seen. the language is portugese, but i loved watchin the movie with subtitles ..
forgot to tell you about the japanese movie "naked killer". dont watch it ! the subtitles are a real mess.. the whole movie made little sense. and nothing raunchy in the movie as expected from the title. its just-another-thriller

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