Is Slumdog Millionaire A Case Of Poverty Porn? Options

[parag_sankla]

I have not seen the film yet, but have read many reviews. My conclusion based on them is that the western world (British director - the same people who ruled us for over 150 years) has made an excellent piece of poverty porn out of India. The projection of Mumbai and India as a whole is slum (as if there are no homeless people in the developed countries). Using the word dog (even if some one defends that its a newly coined word = slum + underdog = slumdog) is derogatory.

Views most welcome.

Jai Hind!

[Marcilo]

hi
Parag bhai kuchh had tak aap theek keh rahe ho. Westerns hamesha kuchh hi topics ko touch karte hain jab India ki baat aati hai.

Sonu, This is what you said... I do not agree at all with this. You can give 1000 + points or 1 million negative points, that's not the point of my debate. My point is on what basis have you made this statement? Do you have any data to quantify your claim? How many movies were made on slums, I asked you the count too?
Have you taken into account making of "Gandhi" the movie when you made this statement?
Have you read the link I gave you? Here it is again

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/cont...gn_id=rss_daily

This post has been edited by Marcilo: Feb 27 2009, 08:31 PM

[oye_sonu]

hi
Parag bhai kuchh had tak aap theek keh rahe ho. Westerns hamesha kuchh hi topics ko touch karte hain jab India ki baat aati hai.

Sonu, This is what you said... I do not agree at all with this. You can give 1000 + points or 1 million negative points, that's not the point of my debate. My point is on what basis have you made this statement? Do you have any data to quantify your claim? How many movies were made on slums, I asked you the count too?
Have you taken into account making of "Gandhi" the movie when you made this statement?
Have you read the link I gave you? Here it is again

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/cont...gn_id=rss_daily

Dubara se apni statement ko repeat kar raha hoon.

Parag bhai kuchh had tak aap theek keh rahe ho. .Westerns hamesha "kuchh hi topics"(not one ) ko touch karte hain jab India ki baat aati hai

Marcilo bhai maine +Ve points jayda kare honge...-ve kam. -ve bhi ek..ie...agar wakiye slum based hai to slum wali image banegi apni.

I have my own stand on every issue, so Iam not blindly following anyone or just to appease any frd or member.
Parag bhai had a point which I supported to "some extent" . "IF the movie" is based on slums it will effect Indian image ,as it is a landmark and very popular movie, future generations, movie libraries, etc all will stock and watch this movie and their image of india will be influenced by this movie. I stick to this stand even now !

Now read my statement above posts I said westerns have " few topics" not ONEwhen it comes to making movies on India( or 3rd world countries ). what was smile pinki about ? did you check The guru, the love guru or holy smoke or the city of joy etc
They rarely go beyond India of poors, cows or spirituality or maharajahs ( specially of Rajasthan !)
You show me other movies where they dared to take up good Indian issue for Western audience ?
(Iam not good in movies as I might have seen 1-2 movies in last 1 year on avg )

Bhaji I saw the link that you gave me. that was more about Indian _ US colloboration either in movie concpets or finances. Here we are talking about movies made exclusvely by Westerns for their audience. with theme on Indian like SDM. produced directed by Englishmen !

Iam yet to search the documentries they make on Buddhism, spirituality or kumbh or pushkar or the Red light areas of calcutta or the dibbawaalas , or how their aid is ustilised. Just two days ago Saw a documentry being made by japenese on one poor UP village which was producing taekawandoo champs.!!

(Even gandhi film had good glimpses of Indian poverty ! remember the scene of woman washing cloth underneath rail bridge ? But Iam not complaining abt it. but just shared for info.)


open to corrections !


Sonu

This post has been edited by oye_sonu: Feb 27 2009, 11:16 PM