I have seen a number of guys using their blogs as a platform to act as a critic for a movie. I used to wonder what all bloggers do while watching a movie, do they actually watch it or just will be scratching hair on what to scribble later in their blogs. This has amused me, made me curious. Let me try my hand, I saw Slumdog as a critic, in a CRITICal perspective .Lets just speak about the movie keeping all the controversies aside regarding its troubled Indian face. I will try to come up with that controversy sometime later.
What a good or rather a great cult movie should possess?
1. A powerful story which keeps you at the edge of your seat for the entire duration but still glued to it.
2. Good screenplay, good script, good cinematography, I wont go into the deeper technicalities of the movie since I am unaware of the movie making skills.
Overall Slumdog is a success recipe. It is mere perfect. Danny boyle has finally earned the much eluded international fame for his wonderful work with the movie.
The movie is actually a moving story of a Mumbai slum dweller boy named Jamaal who in the verge of winning a reality quiz show interrogated by the suspicious cops. How Jamaal knows the answers of all questions, how he won 20 million big bucks and also won his Love is the essence of the movie. The movie is totally desi in look & partly in Hindi. Overall, I loved the movie. Scenes like pouring of acid into the eyes of orphan kids are really touching and well shot.
Anil kapoor is mediocre and irritating but the kids are just awesome. Don’t know whether they will get any recognition later. Subtitles are shown in an innovative way. And it is this balance of film which has touched the right chords of the audience and earned it $’s and golden globes. And our own A R Rahman got the world recognition by winning the golden globe representing 1st ever Indian who won it & it’s definitely a moment for an Indian to cherish. But definitely the background score he gave in the film isn’t his best. Just another normal Rahman composition earned him a Golden globe shows how underrated he is and how underrated our Indian movies are, surely a topic of discussion.
Overall in my favorite IMDB’s words, definitely a 8 pointer and a top 250 movie.
