Continued……
I think director Danny Boyle has done no different job. He just combined all ingredients. Tragedy, a love story, technical perfection, and of course blended art and sounds that captures life of Slums and Mumbai. It really wasn’t creative, but it really was daring and a perfect recipe. So how does it matter if it was made with Indian crew? Sensibility was not that of an Indian.
I’m sure we would’ve missed this one like many others on the same subject. The reason is that Indian audience, just do not want to take three hours out of entertainment share and devote it to a movie that shows you a quantum of depressed life. Those who do go to watch the show probably have different reasons to be there. Very few of them go to appreciate cinematic effort. We are just so used to of same kind of story telling with emotional highs and lows. How many of us went to the theater only because it was hyped and appreciated on an international platform and came back disappointed?
Some of us have not taken the criticism for the movie beyond the emotional prejudice in which Indian poverty has been shown. The truth is that technically the film is accomplished.
So the next time anyone speaks against, should really judge well the prejudice and get rid of it. The recipe is clear - the message should be universal, unprejudiced, meticulously studied, etched and narrated. And of course draw out the best from technical team.
When will we stop making films right from heart and do justice to the art and science of film-making?
