Overrated and somewhat cynical.

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2009)

The whole idea of the movie is overblown to the point where you just can not believe the movie and the actors. Obviously the movie was made for western audience without any regard for the realism of the content. What we have at the end is quite fake portrait of Indian life. All that the makers of the movie had achieved is the overly emotional reaction from politcorrect and emotionally-needful western society. And I doubt that the emotion will be long lasting.
Adding to that the movie is quite cynical in some parts. As In blind boy accepting 100 dollar bill or American tourists standing up for the boy.. etc. etc. This is just so fake and cynical.
The only thing this move good for is making some clueless individual to sympathize with this "out of the world" Cindyrella story.
What was the point of the movie? I did not get it. We already know that the life in India is hard.. what was the point of putting this "spoon of sugar" on the top of it. As if going through winning a million could make us see what hard life a person in Indea could go through..
And stockpiling full-house of stories definitely shows that this movie is more like 10 short tear-sapping stories.. cheap move from the director. Very fake. The Director work is doubtful at least.. the plot just does not connect in some parts.. -Why would a show host make police try this boy for truth??? Doesn't anybody know that these shows make money not from cheating their players out money but from placing advertisements of various commercial product..(obviously that was the move to overdramatise the plot) -Also if you going to rescue child prostitute from pedophile circle.. what are you gonna do about other poor girls? As if police in Indea are in it??? I doubt that.
Well you get the idea of what kind of lies they are showing to us here.. complete fake.. "pulled out by the hair out of a swamp" sappy drama story.
For me this movie was just a pile of cynical-selfmarketing-belowthebeltshot dung. Can not believe it got so many Oscars.. seriously do not understand for what.
Taking tragedy-drama-story to the extremes doesn't always make a good point. But I guess thats what the western public in general is used to.
Sorry 5/10 from me.