hmm.. prolific priyadarshan ? lol. after a few years he will copy the film and call it his own.. as he does always :p
--- In [email protected], "Chord" <purev...@...> wrote: > > http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2009/01/31/4796/index.html > > > Slumdog Millionaire is mediocre & trashy" - Priyadarshan Click here to > add this article to My Clips > > By Subhash K. Jha, January 31, 2009 - 12:03 IST > > The prolific Priyadarshan is shocked and disgusted by the importance > being given to Danny Boyle's desi slum-n-trim saga Slumdog Millionaire. > > "Slumdog Millionaire is nothing but a cheap trashy mediocre version of > those commercial films about estranged brothers and childhood > sweethearts that Salim-Javed used to write so brilliantly in the > 1970s. And please quote me clearly on this. If the Golden Globe and > Oscars committees have chosen to honour this trashy film it just shows > their ignorance of world cinema." > > Priyan whose much-acclaimed film on the silk weavers of Kanjeevaram > was shown alongside Boyle's bewildering busty tale at the Toronto Film > Festival last year feels we Indians are exercising prideful property > rights over a film that denigrates Mumbai. > > "I saw the film with a mixed audience at the Toronto Film festival. > The Westerners loved it. All the Indians hated it. The West loves to > see us as a wasteland, filled with horror stories of exploitation and > degradation. But is that all there's to our beautiful city of Mumbai?" > > Priyan is surprised that Mumbai is celebrating a film that shows only > the city's underbelly. "Why are we taking this treatment? Just because > a whiteman has made Slumdog Millionaire, we're so happy with it? I've > read Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A. It should have been made by Mani > Ratnam. Then you'd have seen what he would have done with Mumbai." > > The angry director wonders why there isn't a single shot in Slumdog > that shows the more aesthetic side of Mumbai? "Why has Danny Boyle not > taken one shot of Marine Drive? Do his slum dwellers exist only within > their slums? And look at the absurdities A boy becomes a national hero > on a game show. One cop takes him under arrest and interrogates him > relentlessly. Where is everyone else? Is this kind of confinement > possible in this age when television cameras enter your bedroom? If > one of our filmmakers had made the same film we would have blasted him > out of business." > > "Let them give as many Oscars as they like. We don't need to be > impressed," ends Priyan angrily. >
