Comments on: Michael Wood on Slumdog Millionaire http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/02/05/michael-wood-on-slumdog-millionaire/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:25:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Som http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/02/05/michael-wood-on-slumdog-millionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-169343 Som Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:02:57 +0000 http://www.naachgaana.com/?p=33297#comment-169343 Good piece here. Thanks for posting Satyam. "In a week where we have all seen images of that Etawah cop casually beat up a 6-year old girl accused of tehft, while colleagues look on, we cannot lie to ourselves that is an unrealistic portrait" Absolutely Qalandar.Some of the reactions in India have just been outrageous. Good piece here. Thanks for posting Satyam.

“In a week where we have all seen images of that Etawah cop casually beat up a 6-year old girl accused of tehft, while colleagues look on, we cannot lie to ourselves that is an unrealistic portrait”

Absolutely Qalandar.Some of the reactions in India have just been outrageous.

]]> By: Qalandar http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/02/05/michael-wood-on-slumdog-millionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-168966 Qalandar Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:52:26 +0000 http://www.naachgaana.com/?p=33297#comment-168966 Yes satyam, that is a very apt paragraph to quote. That torture is one of the reasons why I can't just see it as a fairy tale ending: nothing can "make up" for that torture, or the casualness with which it is administered. In a week where we have all seen images of that Etawah cop casually beat up a 6-year old girl accused of tehft, while colleagues look on, we cannot lie to ourselves that is an unrealistic portrait. Yes satyam, that is a very apt paragraph to quote. That torture is one of the reasons why I can’t just see it as a fairy tale ending: nothing can “make up” for that torture, or the casualness with which it is administered. In a week where we have all seen images of that Etawah cop casually beat up a 6-year old girl accused of tehft, while colleagues look on, we cannot lie to ourselves that is an unrealistic portrait.

]]> By: Qalandar http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/02/05/michael-wood-on-slumdog-millionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-168964 Qalandar Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:49:17 +0000 http://www.naachgaana.com/?p=33297#comment-168964 Good piece, although I disagree that the choreography of Jai Ho was "beautifu[l]"; was amused to see that he finds the sequence where the young kids turn into older kids "confusing"...for those of us brought up on B'wood, that was par for the course. [Random aside: my favorite such sequence is the one in Pukar, when the kid being beaten up emerges as Amitabh]. Good piece, although I disagree that the choreography of Jai Ho was “beautifu[l]“; was amused to see that he finds the sequence where the young kids turn into older kids “confusing”…for those of us brought up on B’wood, that was par for the course.

[Random aside: my favorite such sequence is the one in Pukar, when the kid being beaten up emerges as Amitabh].

]]> By: satyam http://www.naachgaana.com/2009/02/05/michael-wood-on-slumdog-millionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-168954 satyam Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:36:13 +0000 http://www.naachgaana.com/?p=33297#comment-168954 "The uncertainty and embarrassment of the film’s direction have to do with the sheer misery it dives into and flies over. In the early sections, everything happens too fast and is too brightly lit: it feels like tourism in poverty, and perhaps reflects a tension between Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, his Indian co-director. I have to say, though, that if I were protesting about the film, as certain groups in India are, it would not be about pictures of poverty or the word slumdog but about the images of torture in a Bombay police station, where Jamal is badly beaten up and given vicious electric shocks just because he knows things above his notional class. The war on error, perhaps." “The uncertainty and embarrassment of the film’s direction have to do with the sheer misery it dives into and flies over. In the early sections, everything happens too fast and is too brightly lit: it feels like tourism in poverty, and perhaps reflects a tension between Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, his Indian co-director. I have to say, though, that if I were protesting about the film, as certain groups in India are, it would not be about pictures of poverty or the word slumdog but about the images of torture in a Bombay police station, where Jamal is badly beaten up and given vicious electric shocks just because he knows things above his notional class. The war on error, perhaps.”

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