Scumdog Exploitaires

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2009)

Danny Boyle. This guy who looks like a rat should have done the scene that shows a kid covered with excreta getting an autograph from the likeness of Amitab Bachchan must be the most disgusting scene ever filmed in the history of motion picture. Why would an Icon like Amitab Bachchan (if he has any self respect or dignity left after this movie,) give permission for his likeness to be used in this scene? I never seen a human being so libeled or shown in bad-light as in this movie. The script should never have been passed (eg."the lazy Indian who wrote the history of Taj Mahal") Has anyone with any decency or any shame pass a script with dialog like this? Then there is this maggot screenwriter (and lazy scum) screenwriter, whose dialogs are in the same caliber as the "excreta scene". The kids have acted well (rather been exploited well, The only money they probably got, was the money and coca cola given them to them in the movie. The teenagers are the worst set of actors I have seen. If you want to see a good Indian movie that truly depicts the slums, poverty and still brings out the positives in them, Madhur Bhandarkar's "Traffic Signal".The director of this movie should wash Bhandarkar's feet and drink it-may be, he will get some talent by osmosis. The main lead is OK actor-he is not Oscar material. The actress (it is apparent that the second biggest cinema industry has dearth of actresses-so she'd to be imported) has no skills. As far A.R. Rahman this is not his best work-listen to the music of "Swades" and "Jodha Akbar". This is what happens when when you let two scums who are given a free ride in a place where there are no child labor laws. This is not a movie, but more like a collection of clips haphazardly put together with no sense of story-telling or continuity. It's obvious that the movie is made for the sake of making quick bucks by exploiting the children and the poor. I am in total disbelief this has been passed by the Indian Censors. Since this producer pig eats human excreta he and his screenwriter should dip themselves in excreta and run to accept the Oscar's (which seems to be inevitable-judging by the hype.) The Oscar Committee and the audience will be pinching their nose from the "Stench of Film-Making" these two have generated.
The word "Unjust Enrichment" applies to the producers of this Film. If they have any remorse, any conscious, instead of rationalizing and finding an excuse to keep the money, they should give the profits back to the "children of this world" who have been victims of exploitation (child prostitution,child labor,scams,denied opportunities etc,etc) since it only takes "A Dollar A Day" to feed a child in India, Africa and the rest of the impoverished World. These children are dying at the same rate as this movie is raking the money at the Box office.