India is not Brazil.

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2009)

Shocked! This movie has won 4 Golden Globes. It is crowned high up in Top 250(!) What the hell is wrong with everyone? Who are these critics?
From the very beginning this film "smelled" City of God. It seems clear that the writer/director had that masterpiece in mind(as many people here have noticed) while making this mere entertainer.
I'm Indian and I know this country to the core. This film not only lacks the native flavor it also gives way to some unpardonable medley. It just sounds ridiculous when slum people are speaking English(Slangs in Hindi!)- that makes not a single character in this film something that an intellectual may approve.
Evenif you look at it as a great piece of story-telling, there are better ones. Everybody knows. Ask David Fincher!
Storyline is not great, flawed actually. Music is good, but A.R.Rahman has given hundreds of better scores. Cinematography is superb. 6/10. No less. Never more.
If this flick happens to win the best film Oscar, I would very much like to say "Something is wrong." Seriously.