Excellent but perhaps not for weak hearts

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2009)

Slumdog is not a movie for all and specially not for those Indians who love to watch Bollywood romantic movies with all are beautiful and nice things around. It is a film depicting hard realities of slum side of India. These genre of movies even made by Indian directors were never popular amongst general Indian audience as poverty and hard realities of life don't attract people who live inside or around it. So they like to hide in their own world and get entertained by with masala bollywood movies. It is no wonder why it has created so much controversies in India and Indian audience has been splitted up into two groups, one group doesn't like to portray India with its poverty to the outside world, another group is not ambivalent of accepting harder side of poor India. The difference in opinions will continue to be there and even if this movie gets Oscars(till this writing it has got 10 Oscar nominations) many will sniff on this movie saying this is westerners way of defaming India's prosperity. Well, my opinion is accept this great movie as one of the masterpieces and take movie in movie's spirit. There are few of my western friends who also couldn't like the movie. For all of them, take the spirit out of movie and be wondered how an ordinary kid can touch the sky with favour of destiny, also I must add it is nice to be surrounded by wealth and comforts but please do remember you are one of those very tiny lucky percent of population in this earth who can dream of be well-off. If you think this movie is disgusting then thank god that you are lucky and not born like Jamal Malik of this movie. Living in a glasshouse amongst nice paintings on the wall may make you happy but perhaps it is wiser to look through the glass also sometimes to make yourself with a stronger heart. Coming back to the movie, Danny Boyle's best compilation so far added to the flavour excellent tight script , good acting and cinematography and what a Rehman's spell in the musical section. Like I said above if you have a strong heart to see poverty and reality of developing countries then go and watch and be part of the league of real movie lovers.