Jai Ho… Well not only every Indian but almost the whole world is drawn in the feelings of these two magical words. Thanks to A.R. Rehman who beautifully composed the music of SlumDog Millionaire and make it possible to win an Oscar award for India. Along with other Indians, I too congratulate him on achieving the success.
Well, in my point of view, not all part of SlumDog Millionaire altogether shows the true picture of India. If analyzed more deeply, it can be easily depicted that this movie is formed, keeping the people of western countries in mind.
In the last 15 years, India itself grows at a much higher growth rate (remember the earlier Hindu Growth Rate!!) in comparison to the economies of the rest of world. Also in the today’s global economic slowdown scenario, when major of the economies are getting collapsed day by day, Indian economy is still showing positive growth rate.
But this is not acceptable to those people. In their view, India is still a country which can’t compete with them in any-ways. And, when the movies like SlumDog Millionaire is released, which only shows the negative part of India (and that too not on all-real aspects), then such movies are more and more highlighted in order to satisfy their ego. And, what is the best way to highlight a movie in the whole world. Yes, present them globally accepted awards like – Oscar award and Golden Globe award. Huh..!!
But, we can’t deny the fact that to some extent this movie also shows some realities in India. When looking at the deeper aspects of SlumDog Millionaire, on which part of it we want to become happy. Is it slums of our metropolitan cities or is it the increasing activities of gangsters or is it children who are begging around the corners of cities..??
Both our government and we people are getting happy on winning Oscar award at international level. But why proper measures are not taken to make these slums a self-sustainable unit of India. Instead of applausing on SlumDog Millionaire, why steps are not implemented to remove the slums in the next 5-10 years.
Why we just don’t want to face this reality. Probably, people in these slums don’t put any significant impact on government as well as on us. But, this lead to the generation of another-discussion, and that is beyond the topic.
So, keeping the above points in mind, let us think again whether we really need to become happy on winning Oscar for SlumDog Millionaire.
Vaibhav..
