Slumdog Millionaire

Although India Produce maximum number of films in a year in the world in different languages’, yet its film industry unfortunately unable to establish even it’s own (original ) name in the world and it’s commonly known shadow name of Hollywood that is Bollywood,but in the recent past film made by Indian film industries some films get worldwide fame and also succeed to get nominations in world’s most prestigious awards ceremonies like Oscar and in this list some name are Gandhi ,Lagan and yet there was not great success for Indian in any world renowned awards like Golden Globes, British Academy of Film and Television Awards (Bafta) , but yesterday was the day totally belong to Indians and it’s film industry when Film based on the story of a slumdweller of Mumbai’s with some known some faces like Mr.Anil Kapoor of Hindi Film industry and lot of new faces plus combined with director and some technician of western part of globe and to have glimpse of story is that Slumdog Millionaire is based on the novel Q and A by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup, the film depicts the story of Jamaal, a Mumbai slumdweller and how he goes on to win over USD 20 million in the TV reality show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? To get his love back and like its magical underdog winner story, the film which was made on a small budget has turned out a big winner by virtually dominating the pre-Oscar award scene in US. The film has already earned a nomination by Writers Guild of America and American Society of Cinematographers, last night won eight awards out of ten category it nominated and it’s not that it’s awarded and recognize only at Oscars but Slumdog Millionaire starts it’s journey by wining awards in all the well known world awards.
First time this year Slumdog Millionaire attracts people’s attention when it bag five awards at the 14th annual awards in the categories of Best Director ( Danny Boyle ),Best Writer ( Simon Beaufoy ),Best Young Actor (Dev Patel), and Best Composer (Allah Rakha Rehman ) of The Broadcast Film Critics Association’s annual Critics Choice Awards ( BFCA ) which is considered as the largest film critics organisation having members more then two hundred which are based in U.S.A and Canada.
Then Slumdog Millionaire nominated in four categories that is Best Picture, Best Director , Best Screen play and Soundtrack for Golden Globes awards 2009 which held in Los Angeles and it sweeps all the awards it was nominated and there was whisper in the air and making strong possibilities that it is going to do wonder in 81st Oscar awards.
Then British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) Britain's much-discussed Slumdog Millionaire jointly leads the pack with 11 nominations but able to get awards in the seven categories Best Film, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) Best Music (A.R.Rehman), Cinematography in 2008 (Anthony Dod Mantel), Editing in 2008 (Chris Dickens), Sound in 2008 (Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp).
When nomination for the eighty first Oscar announced Slumdog Millionaire was in the Ten Categories and they were Best Film, Best Director, Music Song (Two Nominations), Music Score, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay and won the awards in all categories except in Music score where it was against one of it’s song and second it was not successful to get award that was category of Sound Editing, and that’s not all for India in Oscar as one more nomination for India in the category of Documentary Short by name Smile Pinki and it’s also grab Oscar.
When Slumdog Millionaire starts getting appreciation from other part of world ,shockingly some of Indian faces who are part of Indian film Industry from quite long raising eyebrows and come up with words that film is selling India’s poverty to the world and it has nothing new, in the past lot of film made with same story but because they were made by an Indian that’s why they were not able to qualify even in Foreign film category but because it is made by foreigner that’s why it is begging awards in the world in almost every reputed award shows, even it’s name Slumdog is objectionable, then Director recently clarify the reason for film getting the name of Slumdog Millionaire that Slumdog is mixture of two separate words that are Slum and underdog and as in my film there is a story of underdog who become victorious in his life and is from Slum that’s how it get name, it’s totally wrong to pick the name as Slum and dog, and as per reports it was made with 15 million dollars and till date it succeed to earn 160 million ,and now in some states this film is tax exempted.
I think instead of criticizing the film by one way or another we should applaud achievements of this film, as film is work of art and fiction and if any presentation which contains ingredients of mesmerizing and appeal then certainly it will attracts people. It’s better if we also add our voices with the song of A.R.Rehman …………..JAI HO, JAI HO.