Great Movie!
But there are other things that hit my mind when i watched this movie and the accolades its receiving worldwide. A. R. Rehman and the desi-cast, leave alone Dev and Freida who are debutant - i feel the rest of them have given their best in many or most other Bollywood films.
Speaking of A R Rehman definitely Roja is his best till date, the others in the order that i had liked them - Rang de bansanti, Yuva, Bombay, 1947 Earth, Lagaan, Dil Se, Iruvar - i guess this list will have all of his movies so far! Irrfan Khan is almost the same in all of his movies, be it the sick comedy Dil Kabaddi or the crazy fellow who wipes Rakhi Sawant's tattoo in Krrazy 4 or even the Vodafone commercial. Saurabh Shukla - Satya is still his best. Anil Kapoor - Few of his best performances are from 1942 A love story, Taal, the dhak-dhak Madhuri's Beta, he has always been the hero of the remakes of tamil movies. He shot to fame with Tezaab and Ram Lakhan. Seriously, he hardly appears for 15-20 minutes in Slumdog and gets a screen Guild - all because he was part of the cast.
For all of these gentlemen, who have rendered the best of their performances in most of the other bollywood movies only Slumdog has taken to the Golden globes and Screen guild and Oscars, so, their association with Danny Boyle made the difference ! Had an Indian director made this film, it would have only gotten one Oscar nomination under the Foreign Language film but never 10. And that's what happened with Lagaan.
Feels good to see videshis recognising desi music, acting and books. 'Choose your movie makers with care—they have so much influence on your life!' ;-)
Jai Ho!
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