Should India take credit for slumdog millionaire?
Who doesn’t want to take credit? In fact, it is an underlying source to gain instant recognition, and sometimes to gain power and wealth too. Credit can make you reach new heights, especially when you are competing with your peers who have an equal chance. Consequently, no human being would let go his/her chance of gaining credit for a work he/she had done. But several people have intrigued me, especially when I see them taking credit for no work of their’s, and this sense of bewilderment has intensified by people across India who have been celebrating slumdog millionaire’s journey to glory.
“Should India take credit for slumdog millionaire?” is very much debatable. On one side, slumdog has an adapted screenplay with all the elements of a typical Indian cinema, an aboriginal story which is hard to deny as being fictitious, and a typical bollywood ishtyle music.On the other side, the idea of making a movie out of a slum and slumdog is definitely not ours, and is something which can remotely occur to Indian moviemakers considering the fact that majority of them are biased, and are viable to make only commercial movies.
I am not denying that there had been instances where people made movies with extraordinary substance, but the examples are only a few-given the pool of movies available before us.Further, to what extent did India or Indians as such cooperate with the moviemakers while making the movie? Were they given a cold shoulder or a warm support for trying to make a movie out of Indian elements and putforth before the world? The answers to these questions are the obvious, and for these obvious reasons-I can’t really accept that Indians are to be appreciated for it. Yes, If we are talking about A.R.Rehman, that’s a different case. But, claiming slumdog millionaire as an Indian movie would be like……Are you ok?? Go take a break!!!
I am an Indian, and if I take credit just because i am an Indian, it would look no less than obsessive patriotism. I appreciate and give the whole credit to the director and producer of the movie for having done their home work to such an extent that they have completely succeeded in portraying characters and instances in India along a certain cultural vertical. Further, their belief in the story was praise worthy and remarkable, without which it wouldn’t have been possible. I really can’t say that it is such a great movie to watch, and is a highly eligible movie for Oscars for I myself found it to be an ordinary movie. I am still trying to assimilate the reasons why it went to the Oscars…..But, when it did it….then it is only the moviemakers who are to be credited and nobody else!
