Slumdog millionaire - Not an art

So much was made out of slumdog millionaire winning a Golden globe. The praise and adulation being showered on it makes no sense to me at all. It has historically been proved that the portrayal of reality in india has amused and enthused westerners. An excellent example being Satyajit Ray's movies. I myself as an Indian would never approve of such movies where the camera is kept in filth and naked kids are shown running on the streets. I agree this is reality but this is not the whole picture. This is just one section of India and I dont think that miseries of some people, depicted in a tasteless manner, is art. The international community is not intelligent enough to understand that the entire India is not like this. All indians are not like Mamman. It took India a lifetime to come out of the image of the land of snake charmers and elephants and slumdog has just put us back a 100 years.

There are some realities of the world but they need not be shown with such distaste. Chandni bar was a movie which showed some dark reality of a certain section of India but it did not resort to filthy depiction of slums. Coming back to slumdog millionaire, some of the events shown were absolutely not necessary. Take the example of the makeshift toilet scene. It was absolutely unneccesary in the script. Just to show how the boy in slums knew Amitabh and his immense popularity, I personally feel there were better ways. Rather, I would say that this question did not even deserve a storyline. Same is the case with Lord Ram holding a bow and arrow. Kids even in slum areas and who do not belong to Hindu religion are intelligent enough to answer such a question. The incidents like riots are unnecessarily put in the movie to show the wrong side of India. Looks like, all the bad things in the entire world, happen only to these three musketeers. Worst part is that the westerners enjoy to watch all this. Misery of some cannot be entertainment for anyone.

I strongly criticise the movie. Looks like the aim of it was to show India in a very demeaning form. Every country in the world has beggars, prostitutes, drugs and crime. The westerners do prostitution just for easy money and lavish lifestyles. This is far more pathetic than girls in India who do it because they get trapped into it by force or because they are sacrificing themselves so that their siblings/kids can get a better life. They are not doing it for easy money or entertainment.

India has been shown as a third world dirty underbelly and thank you Amitabh for giving me the correct words for it.

To the author and producer of slumdog -> Life for few is not as easy as making a distasteful movie. You guys really suck.