Ecstasy all over ! Indians are proud ! Slumdog Millionaire has won 8 oscars out of 10 nominations. The same joy as it were among the Indians when Aishwarya Rai and Susmita Sen bagged two major beauty pageants in the same year(1994) and the entire world became a fan of Indian beauty.
Lagaan and then, Taare Zameen Par despite of a well deserved story line and direction , and huge campaigning couldn't make a single one but SG has made it 8. What does one feel - is it just a coincidence or the omens are good for India?? Being a follower of scientific spirituality, I don't believe on good or bad omens. And I am always skeptic to series of good events happening around me. So i feel there is a certain reason for every coincidence. What it could be here??
Well perhaps there was large decrease in profits of cosmetics and fashion market and then a brilliant idea came in their mind. What about a large woman population in India, can they be attracted to it. Someone says- "No, they've a strong bonding to their Indian culture, which already defined them what to wear and what to not."
"So what, the same culture taught them what and how to read but look at the intelligent Macaulay, entire India reads what we want them to read."
and they suddenly started seeing beauty in Indian girls and then a series of indian names in top beauty paegents competition after 1994 and hence a big market of expensive cosmetics brands and fashion wears in India. Now a girl in India(at least in metros) will be called uncivilized if doesn't use these products and doesn't at least dream to get exposed in such beauty competitions.
Now come to Oscars. Lagaan didn't deserve it, why?? because it represented bad british and poor Hindus/Muslims united against whites, while SM deserved it because it represents nice americans and bad indians(remember the dialogue - Jamal says to an American tourist couple, when he rolls on the ground after a brutal beating by the police, 'You want to see the real India? Here it is!') and more here it shows a riot among hindus and muslims and so Rehman who was giving bad music till today and now he is giving good?
Why we are so obsessed with White color? with oscar. Tell me one single advantage India has got. Even the child actors’ parents have accused the hit film’s producers of exploiting and underpaying the eight-year-olds . They have received less than what many Indian domestic servants get, the newspaper said. As Aamir khan rightly points out, it's not an Indian movie and Amitabh bachchan says - "If 'Slumdog Millionaire' projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,...Its just that the 'Slumdog Millioanire' idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition". Even
To give you a flavor of how to create uproar, controversy and hence get entries in oscars - The film is christened from the novel by Vikas Swarup named 'Q & A' but the protagonist character name is changed from Ram Mohammad Thomas, who was a representation of religious unity to Jamal, just a section and then torture by Indian police and then filthy portray and then riots and so on.
It is a naked truth that Western countries has always portrayed India as a open toilet and garbage, they are never interested in the other side of the shining India. If westerners have the innovation and courage, why don't they concentrate on pedophiles(I'll rather say pedopigs), racial abuses, homeless people, exploitation of African people for medical drug testings, uninsured people dying because of high medical bills, fanatic killing by students, Americans war against Iraq, Divorces and breaking family bondings, mad experiments in the name of science(Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory) and I am many interesting topics prevalent in their countries.
Wake up Indians. Come out of slave minds. Don't let exploit yourself in the name of entertainment and awards. Unwear the colored western glass and then you'll be able to realize the truth. Remember as T P Sreenivasan( former ambassador of India to the United Nations) says - "..the film is exploitation of the novel, of Dharavi, of poverty, of Rahman, of India itself to titillate foreign audiences. It is the exploitation of the new curiosity about India's success."
Relevant links:
Slumdog- A poverty Porn
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2009/feb/16-slumdog-poverty-porn-at-its-worst.htm
Why Slumdog won
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090224/1241/top-it-shouldn-t-have-won.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Slumdog-sparks-artistic-freedom-debate-in-China/articleshow/4213610.cms
Happy India: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6ovr2KGwu64&refer=muse
Hemamilini:
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%
Amitabh:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1782607
Aamir Khan:
http://music.ndtv.com/music_story.aspx?id=ENTEN20090084475&type=musicindia
Child Exploitation:
http://www.zimbio.com/Slumdog+Millionaire/articles/201/Slumdog+Millionaire+Child+Exploitation
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1225206
http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20090128/1271/ten-parents-say-children-exploited-in-sl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/4347472/Poor-parents-of-Slumdog-millionaire-stars-say-children-were-exploited.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/30/slumdog-millionaire-accused-of-exploiting-actors
What Indians feel:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fg-india-slumdog24-2009jan24,0,1162547.story
To play with Sentiments of a section:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/152164/Slumdog-is-about-defaming-Hindus.html
The views expressed above are my own and doesn't represent view of any particular organization or group.
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