see it for it's brilliant technicals.. but as a portrayal it's horrible.

Rating: 5/10 (11 February 2009)

I saw "Slumdog Millionaire" and i'm Indian. the movie was brilliant but i am very upset as the way Danny Boyle portrayed India. I mean some of the stuff was partly true but many many many things were just horrible. We are a country thats progressing and showing us as a nation filled with just cheats, prostitutes and mafia was not the best thing to do. i am a very proud Indian and i will accept the things that are true, but the movie just proved that everyone else just assumes that it is a country where either people run around trees and sing and dance in co-ordination or starve on the roads and dive into their own waste. people who don't understand some things shouldn't make movies that so blatantly abuse the country and it's people.
Danny casted Dev Patel, who is a brilliant actor but for a person to portray a role like Jamal's you would at least pick an Indian actor. Which slum dweller has an accent??? i mean come on! The biggest mistake was the casting and there were many factual errors.
Now what was good. the direction was brilliant. The entire cast was mind-blowing. Dev and Frieda are truly remarkable and will go a long way. Two very very enthusiastic thumbs-up. The soundtrack is one of A.R Rahman's best work. As a technical movie it was one of the best movies i have seen. But that's it. If you take away the technicals the movie is a very poorly planned out film.
Sorry, but it's true.