Slumdog Millionaire – my views
The subject of “Slumdog Millioanire” has been flogged to death by a whole host of people – specially after Mr. Bacchan’s comments on his blog. The movie has been going from strength to strength with awards galore and is also expected to bag a couple of Oscars! The movie has been brilliantly made and the music is something which you carry with you when you leave the theatre. This post is not about a critical analysis of the movie – I definitely am not competent to do that. Just one factual error which came to mind was whether the slums shown in the movie are Dharavi (as depicted) or Kurla. I say Kurla because I have not seen any airport which is close to Dharavi, the only slums which are almost a part of the airport are the Kurla slums. What I wanted to write about is the hullabaloo being made on the sleazy underbelly of Mumbai – bad for tourism, India is not only slums, etc. But why run away from facts, that is how our slums are – they are ruled by slumlords who have the backing of som...