It's OK

Rating: 7/10 (7 June 2014)

I know this is a well renowned movie, as I am watching it in 2014 after it won all of it's awards and maybe my judgement is skewed.
The editing was great, the acting good, but I never could buy into the storyline for some reason. Maybe bc I'm white middle class, or maybe bc it was a fairy tail for the third world country folk.
Either Way, it is definitely entertaining, but I can't stop questioning the feasibility of this movie. It's basically another romeo and juliet storyline wrapped up in a different cultural setting. I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that I don't think it should have won the awards it did. I mean seriously, how many times has this movie been made? More than once.
Bottom line; Did I enjoy it?; Yes, I inevitably did and It is def worth watching, but I did not get the overwhelming grandeur or feel good moment on which this movie of supposedly calibre grips the audience (which is me) into a vacuum of emotion. You can go to India and witness the grisly realisation of life; of being one in a literally billion of souls meandering their subsistence in poverty; and this film does a good job of representing that, but the overlying storyline was such a fantasy plot that I immediately rejected its heir to storytelling.
Real India is cruel and unusual, especially to a westernern, but this was not an accurate representation imho. Thats my opinion,agree or disagree.