“These two children have brought laurels to the country … they live in slums, which cannot even be classified as housing.”

GAUTAM CHATTERJEE, head of India’s Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, announcing that the two main child actors from Slumdog Millionaire will receive new homes from the government.

So what about this? Are the slums a new phenomenon? Did it take a foreign director/crew to show the existance of slums? Were they invisible?
The bare truth is that the leadership just chooses to close its eyes and rake up every damn opportunity to make a publicity stunt. I really find it very difficult to accept this action in any other way. These people have now become expendable resources to a few uneducated guys- plain USE n THROW, adding to my disgust…

SDM was good but NOT great for scoring a victory in the best director and best movie categories. Lotsa others were OUTSTANDING when compared to SDM. TDK, as JMJ said was very very well made. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may not have a lot of logic but neither did The Forrest Gump. How many of us would say Forrest Gump was bad? It is all about how well the movie is made and for curious case, this was simply amazing!
Again, SDM was good, but there were better ones.

About the Oscar…I was really Surprised that SDM won so many awards…SDM did not deserve so many awards. Of course ARR is the best and he deserved both the trophies he got…but I would have loved to see Dark Kinght with a few more Trophies…One hell of a movie!!!

The problem with this is that, that leaves the avenue of politics open only to the criminally minded and the corruption seekers.

If you are not satisfied with today’s politicians, make change happen by actively participating in politics. When more idealistic people come in, it will tilt the bias away from the nebulous creeps that infest the scene now.

So its ok to not to vote if i feel nobody is eligible to represent me,and i protest by not voting…
yes by boycotting election.

But thats just an argument , i will surely vote.

If you did not vote for a party or not eligible to vote for a party since u do not have a Voter ID, then how can you have the rights (although not barred in the constitution, saying ‘Right to Freedom of Speech’) to talk about the government in power or even the opposition or even the Left. Don’t you think that as a civilised citizen, one can have the authority to complain or question the credibility and functioning of the issues in the parliament only if you really voted for a party. Blaming the party, that it is irresponsible is a stupidity when you, your self was irresponsible in not even getting a voter ID. If you want to debate this using the Rights in the Indian Constitution, for you information, the Constitution also says that the People Votes for the party which forms a Government. How can you avoid one right and follow the rest as a ‘citizen’?

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is one of a kind movie which took a lot of efforts in making. Most of its crew have never touched Indian soil until December 2006 when they started to research on the screenplay and art. This phenomenal display of Indian culture, Patriotism, Religion, Languages and best of all, the very own Slums and the slum dwellers attributes to a tremendous effort in Direction, Screenplay (of course adapted from ‘Q & A by Vikas Swaroop’) is a whole lot achievement in any sense you can think of. I am happy with Slumdog winning 8 out of 9 awards.. Sound Editing got a tough competition from ‘The Dark Knight’ and it deserved the Oscar.
I was unhappy not to see ‘The Dark Knight’ in the Best Picture nomination list. It was one hell of a movie! One of the bests I’ve ever seen!