Comments on: Look Who got Rich

By: Madhav

Madhav — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:47:16 +0000

i totally agree with u..Its been processed,packaged,and sold for western audiences.Especially the kid jumping into shit..is that what India wants to show the world..i am sorry..what Danny Boyle wants to show the world about India.What about all da brilliant minds in IIT,IIM,and NASA..why doesnt he make a movie about them???why doesnt he make a movie about da huge joint family system of India?Or about an Indian marriage?Or wait..at least about a slumdog who grows rich on his own because of his talents and contributes to indian society and try to elevate people from poverty..Not a slumdog who is from da minority community and is picked on by da “cruel unforgiving majority community”..wow..India is not only a poor place!!!its a cruel place as well..!!!!I have no problems with Danny Boyle.He just did this thing.I have problems with the millions of Indians who actually cheer for this poverty ridden fiasco and say that poverty has to be addressed thats why they are showing it..Hell!Why do u want to show the western world for poverty to be addressed in india?ARE WE BEGGING THEM TO SAVE OUR POOR SKINS..shame..really..shame..

By: The Pseudonym

The Pseudonym — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:57:47 +0000

@ Ais Hey Ais am Sorry I dont have Turtle Photos But I have some Photos from lat Night which I will post in a bit.

By: Aiswarya Baskaran

Aiswarya Baskaran — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:19:15 +0000

I agree!! And I like ur cartoon =)
When are you posting pics of turtles???

By: The Pseudonym

The Pseudonym — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:06:46 +0000

@Sowmya I wish we could make movies about the poor in Europe and America and how they suffer and I dont think the movie would get any sort of recognition.

@ Lifern Yeah Very True. But we can’t live without marketing can we????

By: lilfern

lilfern — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:49:22 +0000

hmmm…i agree the movie w/o all the hype is pretty unremarkable. its success has a lot to do with a social evil called – MARKETING!! Something that got a totally unremarkable book like the Da Vinci Code a whole lot of hype

By: Sowmya

Sowmya — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:43:34 +0000

Agree with you -the movie sucks! It has been made for the Western audiences complete with cliche of every kind. The Indian audience are just a bonus as far as the filmmaker was concerned. So why should he bother about our sensibilities

Rahman is an awesome musician. The Oscars are not going to change that -If he wins or not. He was a phenomenon and will be one….

By: The Pseudonym

The Pseudonym — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:55:23 +0000

@joel Yeah let’s see how more money into the music industry will mean less poverty. Not very sure about this one.

@ Glad you like the movie. I think it would be interesting if someone had a Parody on this one.

@Dilip I hate this whole awards stuff. How does what someone does suddenly become famous. Was he not as good or probably even better before that.

By: Dilip Muralidaran

Dilip Muralidaran — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:28:32 +0000

Nothing makes money like religion too da. We need to get that out of the picture too. As for ARR, he is a genious but then slumdog was not even mediocre i would say.

Friggin foreigners judge music by their taste. If indians ran the oscar show we would give every damn trophy to rahman for Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na like movies.

By: Jollyroger

Jollyroger — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:05:04 +0000

I agree that I have heard better from Rahman and considering where the song appears in the film you wonder why it was made? Maybe there is an insider to the Golden Globes?

But I liked the movie, it was fun.

By: Joel Suganth

Joel Suganth — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:45:55 +0000

Stereotypes rule.

about the music in the movie: AR Rahman is much better than Golden Globe or anything else that the non Indian film Industry could offer him, one of his greatest achievements is to create a sound that a lot of Indians agree with. and that is something very remarkable and something that other composers did not have to deal with.
yes, James Honer rips of Celtic tunes which many people end up humming and John Williams borrows a lot from Mahler. ARR does his thing also, they all do absolute crap also. so to get a golden globe and be recognized among them is ok.

about the movie: Too bad I did not watch the Hindi version, the english version is terrible and incredibly tedious to watch. it was just too funny to see indi cops beating up Jamal and Introgating him in English!!! I know better.

One good thing that could come out of this movie is that more money will flow in to the film industry and hopefully some of it will filter down to a few good Independent film Makers.