We need real stories like Slumdog Millionaire

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2018)

If you haven't visited India before, you will not know and understand the huge gap between the rich and the poor in this country. Homeless people dressed in dirty clothes, beggers on the trains, peculiar hijra ignored by the society etc. India has a huge population and to raise such a huge one is not easy. So there will be social and religious problems between Hindus, Muslims and Christians. But what we see on the Bollywood or south India films has little connections with these social situations. The glamourous life mentioned in the Indian film only belong to a small portion of Indian people.
Some Indians will say that some scenes in the film are not true: like a child jump into the toilet and crawled out to get the signature of Indian film actor amitab bacchan. But one reality is true that in 1990 due to demolition of babri masjid there was a fierce and bloody clash between Hindus and Muslims across the country. The hatred still exit till now followed the Mumbai bombing in the 1990s, Gujrat train burning incident in 2001, 2008 Mumbai attack. People don't want to remove the scar on their heart because it will hurt a lot.
The storyline of the film is very good and flash back with the child memories of three children. The music from AR Rahman is very impressive and really touch your heart. There is no unnecessary dancing and singing in this film which almost occurred in every Hindi and south Indian film. We hope Indian directors can also produce such good works to demonstrate the culture heritage and eastern civilisation, not just copying hollywood films.