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]]> By: padma http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-218 padma Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:56:04 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-218 Anshu I am game. Just tell me when you are ready and we start ok? which song was it???? And we can go together to see the Louvre after that, that would be fun. Anshu I am game. Just tell me when you are ready and we start ok?
which song was it????
And we can go together to see the Louvre after that, that would be fun.

]]> By: anshu http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-217 anshu Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:36:34 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-217 Padma, You deserve a pat on your back for taking on Dominique Lapierre. Love your guts! And knowing you has been fun. You know, I lived in Pondicherry for a while and I always wanted to speak French. Didn't pursue it then, except for a teacher who taught me some song about the moon, and the usual Bonjour Monsieur, Merci etc. Then I was tempted every weekend during my London stay to take the train to Paris. But always felt I would get lost without knowing the language! Would love to learn French from you! And then I would love to see the Louvre. Padma, You deserve a pat on your back for taking on Dominique Lapierre. Love your guts! And knowing you has been fun. You know, I lived in Pondicherry for a while and I always wanted to speak French. Didn’t pursue it then, except for a teacher who taught me some song about the moon, and the usual Bonjour Monsieur, Merci etc. Then I was tempted every weekend during my London stay to take the train to Paris. But always felt I would get lost without knowing the language! Would love to learn French from you! And then I would love to see the Louvre.

]]> By: padma http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-216 padma Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:53:07 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-216 one has to be more responsible when one is a bestseller even before publishing no? I did point this out to him when he had come over for a talk at the alliance to the horror of my then director and i suggested to him that he should at least add in the preface or the foreword that this is just one of the truths about India and certainly not the whole truth and that there were unheard-0f riches also in India and so so so so many layers of truth!!! and guess what, he did accept. By the way Anshu did I tell you that I am so glad to have met you albeit thru the internet and that I love interacting with you!!!!!!!!!!!!! one has to be more responsible when one is a bestseller even before publishing no?
I did point this out to him when he had come over for a talk at the alliance to the horror of my then director and i suggested to him that he should at least add in the preface or the foreword that this is just one of the truths about India and certainly not the whole truth and that there were unheard-0f riches also in India and so so so so many layers of truth!!! and guess what, he did accept.

By the way Anshu did I tell you that I am so glad to have met you albeit thru the internet and that I love interacting with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: padma http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-215 padma Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:09:43 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-215 Anshu you are telling me!!!! As you know I teach French translate and interpret and I am sick to the gills of all the French people asking me inane questions and having weird ideas on idea all based exclusively on City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre who knew fully well that anything that he writes is bound to be a bestseller!!!! and to be fair to him what he did write about was the truth but only an infintessimal truth about India, namely its slums and a particular slum in Calcutta but what about all the other realities???????????????????? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Anshu you are telling me!!!! As you know I teach French translate and interpret and I am sick to the gills of all the French people asking me inane questions and having weird ideas on idea all based exclusively on City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre who knew fully well that anything that he writes is bound to be a bestseller!!!! and to be fair to him what he did write about was the truth but only an infintessimal truth about India, namely its slums and a particular slum in Calcutta but what about all the other realities???????????????????? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

]]> By: anshu http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-214 anshu Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:41:20 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-214 Thanks Padma, for that balanced perspective. The cliches got to me. And I am fed up of India being depicted as full of chipkalis, machchars and the like. Talk to the kids of Indian origin from the US and I feel nauseated- this is the picture of India they have. No, I haven't seen A Wednesday and most of last year's great movies. But now that you say, I have to catch up with it. Thanks Padma, for that balanced perspective. The cliches got to me. And I am fed up of India being depicted as full of chipkalis, machchars and the like. Talk to the kids of Indian origin from the US and I feel nauseated- this is the picture of India they have.

No, I haven’t seen A Wednesday and most of last year’s great movies. But now that you say, I have to catch up with it.

]]> By: padma http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-213 padma Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:50:14 +0000 http://www.dranshu.com/2009/02/05/slumdog-millionaire-does-it-even-deserve-an-oscar-nomination/#comment-213 Anshu, the fact of the matter is that even though danny Boyle is unfortunately not a knowm figure in India (though serious film buffs are bound to know him), he is a cult figure in the West and is known for his original works and for the fact that everytime he makes a film, the treatment is entirely different and he cannot be recognized except in cinematic terms such as the kind of shots, cinematography angles etc. He has made what one can really term cult films, with Trainspotting heading the list by far. So his reputation being formidable, no wonder that any film that he makes is taken seriously especially by award giving bodies if not by Western cinegoers as well. Having said this, I agree that Slumdog is certainly not his best work but I did not find any malicious insctinct in it either but yes a certain lack of knowledge certainly but then how much do you expect Westerners to really comprehend a country as complex as India and ethos as complicated as what one finds here!!! As for TZP, it dealt with a subject which was novel for us but not at all so for a Western audience and as for the pathos in the film I agree they do not share the sensibilities that we have. Sad but true. Yes Danny Boyle, given his stature, could have gone beyond the cliches that International audiences have been served time and again (Dominique Lapierre, Salaam Bombay, etc etc)and expect of India and I understand why we the Indians are getting upset abt it. If you ask me, I felt that A wednesday was a far better choice for the oscars than TZP given the topicality of the film in the global scenario and the fantastic piece of acting by the protagonists. Though Anshu believe me I cried buckets and was thoroughly viscerally moved by TZP. Love, Padma Anshu, the fact of the matter is that even though danny Boyle is unfortunately not a knowm figure in India (though serious film buffs are bound to know him), he is a cult figure in the West and is known for his original works and for the fact that everytime he makes a film, the treatment is entirely different and he cannot be recognized except in cinematic terms such as the kind of shots, cinematography angles etc. He has made what one can really term cult films, with Trainspotting heading the list by far. So his reputation being formidable, no wonder that any film that he makes is taken seriously especially by award giving bodies if not by Western cinegoers as well.
Having said this, I agree that Slumdog is certainly not his best work but I did not find any malicious insctinct in it either but yes a certain lack of knowledge certainly but then how much do you expect Westerners to really comprehend a country as complex as India and ethos as complicated as what one finds here!!!
As for TZP, it dealt with a subject which was novel for us but not at all so for a Western audience and as for the pathos in the film I agree they do not share the sensibilities that we have. Sad but true.
Yes Danny Boyle, given his stature, could have gone beyond the cliches that International audiences have been served time and again (Dominique Lapierre, Salaam Bombay, etc etc)and expect of India and I understand why we the Indians are getting upset abt it.
If you ask me, I felt that A wednesday was a far better choice for the oscars than TZP given the topicality of the film in the global scenario and the fantastic piece of acting by the protagonists. Though Anshu believe me I cried buckets and was thoroughly viscerally moved by TZP.
Love,
Padma

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