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21st November 2008, 10:32
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Slumdog Millionaire
Anyone seen it yet??
I am really looking forward to this one... loved the book plus the guy who composed the soundtrack A R Rahman is nothing short of a musical god in my part of the world |
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25th December 2008, 16:40
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Disgusted to see anyone with a rapidshare acoount are downloading this R5 quality film - can provide information where this is being shared (to report them obviously).
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25th December 2008, 16:44
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 Other films are ok to 'steal' though
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25th December 2008, 17:01
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Slumdog Millionaire Watched the movie, okay , worth watching once, Water few years back was miles miles better..... Dunno how Taare Zammen par was nominated as India's official entry though. Yank critics have said in LA "Indians are already devastated with Mumbai blasts, we would give them some thing to cheer about" after it won LA critics award and when they nominated the movie for the Golden Globe.  Should be great if we manage to win a Oscar in one way or the other. |
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25th December 2008, 17:17
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7th January 2009, 15:54
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FUCK ME! The main actor (Dev Patel) that plays the character Jamal Malik used to go to my school 2 years ago! Obviously he was on our screens before in "Skins" but this is massive for him. I knew him quite well, he was in the year above me, and once told me (over a bag of MY chips) that he never even took Drama at GCSE
He even taught me Tae Kwon Do for one lesson (long story). I am well happy for him.
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12th January 2009, 13:24
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But the timing of its release might have had an impact, it's a very upbeat and optimistic movie which is fairly welcome in these times of economic uncertainty and credit crunch. |
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12th January 2009, 16:59
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great film. a great portrayal of life in the slums/shanties of india. is quite sad with the realisation that kids get blinded/crippled to earn more money begging. but thats the way of the world i suppose. didn't want to go, but the missus dragged me. glad she did, was a very good movie.
got a blowie when we got home as well. 
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12th January 2009, 23:03
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12th January 2009, 23:23
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Agree with Zing. There's nowt great about that movie, watched only once, found it difficult to occupy myself and finally gave up. There are certainly better movies from the India for the ones with classical taste.
There are millions of cretins that even go to the extent of mortgaging toilet mugs to marwari hundis to get tickets once they hear some trash talks about some movie from the clueless western media even though they are all shit and also bang about aloud on the internet in a know all manner. That Aamir Khan's movie was far more entertaining, compared to thsi one. |
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16th January 2009, 04:12
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Was left completely underwhelmed by this ... was looking forward to watching it and now that I finally have, I can't for the life of me understand what the fuss is all about. It's a relatively good movie, but if it wins the oscar for Best Movie, i would honestly be shocked. The dialogue was atrocious .. the acting wasn't great .. the story was typical masala Bollywood fare .. What's the fuss about ?
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16th January 2009, 12:20
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correct me if I'm mistaken but isn't this film up for around 11 oscars?
I'm definitely going to see this after my exams finish. |
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16th January 2009, 12:34
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I thought it was fantastic. It seems a lot of indians aren't very happy about the movie, which I understand. But from my point of view I thought it was good and I know very little about India so I can't see the flaws of it and compare it to other "Indian" movies. But from the story telling, cinematography, directing and acting point of view I thought it was good.
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16th January 2009, 22:51
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just back from seeing it, thought the cinematography was superb, not sure about the hype over the 'Dev Patel' bloke though, he was hardly in it! The younger versions of the brothers were class!!
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17th January 2009, 00:37
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Maybe a lot of Indians dont like it because it shows a lot of truths, a lot of things that are'nt shown in normal bollywood movies.
I, for one, thought it was brilliant. |
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17th January 2009, 03:37
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17th January 2009, 08:36
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I'm Indian and I liked the movie.
I still dont think its worthy of sweeping the Oscars though. One of the reasons why most Indians dont think its anything great is because they've seen concepts like this before when it comes to Bollywood films. |
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17th January 2009, 12:25
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It's the typical rags to riches story told in an innovative way with some sleek direction. Even I'm sceptical if this would've got any recognition if it wasn't in English and directed by an English guy. |
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26th January 2009, 20:29
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If you meant poverty and corruption, Bollywood movies have dealt with these topics often and well enough in the past. Although lately there has been a shift towards glamour movies, for a long period in the 70s and 80s the Bollywood hero almost always came from an underprivileged background and beat the odds to become successful/happy/get his girl/whatever. I enjoyed Slumdog. I wasnt happy with all the actors though, Anil Kapoor was cetainly poor by his usual standards. But a nice Bollywoodish kinda movie with a slightly lame climax. I mean, that last question obvoiusly fitted well with the plot but c'mon, it was just too easy. But movies with similar plots and sometimes better acting release everyday in Bollywood and do quite well in India. They just arent directed by a danny Boyle or backed by Fox Searchlight, etc and hence don't do as well abroad. one thing that puzzled me was that everyone outside India hates Bollywood movies for the song dance routines and yet I noticed that everyone bar the Indians sat through that song during the end credits???? |
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26th January 2009, 20:39
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Even Marcos and Bazalini has tried posting something nice about the movie - sums up the overall quality, just because it came out of another cretinous British director it carries hype. Hope it get kicked out of Oscars, but unlikely though. Oscars these days are like Miss World, the marketing potential of the movie aftermath can call the shots in choosing the winner. |
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26th January 2009, 20:47
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