Slumdog Millionaire ... what should movies be like

Hamid mian,

You can read some opinions on this site:

Don't call us dogs, say Slumdog protesters in cinema rampage

Armed police guard picturehouses after India's poor claim that hit film title violates their human rights

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5597745.ec e

Re: # 91

arjun mian,

.........stop acting like a cheap bania and spend the ten bucks to see the movie at a theater like the rest of us ......... if you want, you can sneak in your idlee and bhaji roll to stink up the place

Re: # 91

arjun mian,

.... americans don't love you horrible hindoos as much as you think ........ your sorry h1-b arse will soon be on a plane back to keralaland, or wherever you came from ....... as it is, the quota for code coolies has been reduced by more than half since 2004 ..... on the other hand, paki cab drivers, who provide an essential service, continue to be welcomed in new york ........

Arjun, let me know by PM if you find one :).

#90 Posted by Pew_Research on January 27, 2009 4:08:44 am

What prophetboy forgets is that 2/3rd of americans have a positive opinion of india and 2/3rds of americans have a negative opinion of pakiland...

does anyone have a torrent site I can get this movie from? I don't think the DVD will be out before summer..

Re: # 87 Tahmed

"this name proves that the US is above such petty communal/ethnic hatreds that plague india and pakistan..."

Sahib, I know that you are keen to hyphenate India with Pakistan. Fact is, that India is closer (and perhaps ahead of) to the US ideals than Pakistan is to India's in some areas - especially when representation of minorities is the issue. India has had far more elected and appointed officials in high office of different religious persuasions and crossing religious/ethnic fault-lines than the US has. It took the US nearly 200 years to grant universal adult sufferage. India has had it since '47. Affirmative action in the US is a suggested public policy, in India it is enshrined in the Constitution.
Enough said.

Re: # 87

tahmed mian,

..... when hussein, the great black hope, came to detroit he made sure that he was not photographed with the two hijabi campaign workers .......... i think that was smart - i would have done the same thing ...... it is okay to patronize moslems, but you don't have to fraternize with them .....

..... by the way, you did not answer my question: are you going to put your butt where your mouth is and join the dharna on march 9? ...... like i said before, spring is a lovely time in islamabad and i will make sure you are supplied with nihari from committee chowk and pizza from pizza hut ........... you want to make sure droopy is back on the bench so that he can indemnify zardari's 18th amendment just as he did musharraf's 17th .... and while you are fattening yourself at the dharna, you might want to ask the chief tabalchi, aitizaz ahsan, and the harmonium wala, ali ahmed kurd, to get the story straight on their nautch girl's record ........ you should have seen ali ahmed dance around the questions on jawab deh - it was pathetic ..........

Re: # 81
bheen...
watch the movie Guru ( people say, the movie should be named Dhiru)....making of one of richest family on this planet...

#82 bheenagaram: obama didnt need to say that - the fact that he has retained his arab first name (barak = grace), his muslim middle name and his african last name proves he does not suffer from any complexes. and the fact that he won the election witht this name proves that the US is above such petty communal/ethnic hatreds that plague india and pakistan.

and the fact that al qaeda and masadi are making racial epithets against Barak speaks for itself about where they are.

Folio #49 true. i was merely attempting to annoy some of your countrymen here.

Re: # 81
Bheen...
You should not put cap on creativity. If it is derogatory to India,GoI should have banned the book...It is absolutely OK, if that fellow shows 5% of the movie complete absurd....Don't we watch 100% absurd movies like Indiana Jones and the last crusade and praise Spielberg....

At least homeless people in NY will get some solace....

#21 Posted by VRV on January 24, 2009 3:21:48 pm

I dont know why filtered it. The boy in the movie does that. Prolly Chowk admin guys didnt see the movie.

Re: # 82
bheen...
Oil demand has shrunk...

Obama: U.S. not your enemy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090127/pl_politico/18016

"I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries," Obama said, according to a White House transcript. "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy."

The Al Arabiya interview, directed squarely at Muslims around the world, revived a vision of personal, symbolic international change that was in the air when Obama - with his far-flung family members, and complicated story - launched his campaign. It was a vision, and an aspect of his story, that the candidate buried when, in 2007, was forced to combat whispering campaigns about his own faith.

The US Iran negotiations after the Obama Interview!
Negotiating with Iran could be interesting.

US: Stop your nuclear weapons progam.
Iran: We don't have one and you know it.
US: Yes you do. We know it.
Iran: No, we don't (and you have proof).
US: I don't care! Stop it, or else!

US: Stop supplying the Iraqi insurgency.
Iran: Why would we promote an insurgency against our friend, the government of Iraq?
US: Because your're perverse and devious Iranians.

US: Stop supporting terrorism.
Iran: You mean terrorism like bombing hospitals, schools, ambulances and wedding parties?
US: No, we mean terrorism as in supplying Hezbollah and Hamas.
Iran: I see, so they can have their hospitals, schools, ambulances and wedding parties bombed with impunity?
US: You don't get it. Stop it or else we'll bomb your hospitals, schools, ambulances and wedding parties.
Iran: If you agree to lift economic sanctions and not attack us, then we'll consider it.
US: No deal!

Iran: So you have proof that we have no nuke program, we have no reason to support the Iraqi insurgency, and you can have a deal on the table for what you call terrorism. Could we just do a deal and be done with all this nonsense?
US: No.

Iran: What else do you want?
US: Can't say.
Iran: Well, then, we can't help you.
US: Yes you can! You know what it is.
Iran: No, please tell us.
US: No can do.
Iran: So are we supposed to intuit your desires?
US: HAND OVER THE OIL, DAMN IT!! Or we'll blow you to smithereens.
Iran: Like Iraq? How did that work out? Getting any more oil?
US: Shut up!!!

SDM is not a good movie. It is not fair to Indians.
Everyone wants to show 1 billion poor but no one wants to make a movie about the 5 billionaires we have. That is no joke. At partition we had none but poverty was still there.
They should show our Indian Billionaires more...

Re: # 73
Krishna...
Nice pic.....
Take out the CFL...it looks like a scene from pirate movie of 13/14th century...
Jinnah's mission is successful....he is successful in creating large farm of genetically modified arabs....