What I feel about Slumdog Millionaire...

Every day or the other I hear of the movie ‘Slumdog millionaire’ being in the newspaper for some reason or the other for being in the race for the Oscars or grabbing awards at the Golden Globe awards ceremony or the controversial remarks by the great ‘Big B’. I too being an Indian would like to express my views on the movie.

I too had discussed this movie with all my common friends whose views matched with mine. Though this movie is winning accolades everywhere I found this movie a bit disgusting. Though this movie has excellent cast, a good directing and good music I found it a normal movie with the tag, from rags to riches and it is worth watching only once. It is not as good as the Hindi movie ‘Taare zameen par’ which is hundred times better than Slumdog. Also it hurt me that a big city like Mumbai is shown in dire straits with the dumping grounds, slums and antisocial elements. Though I really admit that these elements exist in Mumbai it was a cheap way of earning money for film by showing all this stuff to westerners. Also such antisocial elements are also present in all western countries and it shouldn’t have been pin pointed only at India. It hurts me that this film shows India in such a poor condition to the world audience.

I would like to tell you all that it is a good movie worth watching once and forgetting it. Any patriotic Indian would feel unhappy about the conditions in which a common Indian is living………….

Mumbai- a city that soaks all your energy

Once I was traveling late night on Mumbai local trains after seeing a recent Hindi movie, I was tired so were many people in the train. I boarded a Dombivili bound local at about 10:35 p.m from Thane station. I could see the tired faces of people after a day’s hard work only to find yourself in a crowded local train trying to find a seat to sit in order to rest your badly aching legs. As far as I know, most of them would have been thinking about their family and money problems.

Let me give you a quick overlook of Dombivili railway station. It has five platforms out of which platform no.1 serves all local trains which have to go beyond Dombivili. Normally the trains which terminate at Dombivili arrive at platform no.2. Trains arriving at platform no.1 have a good facility that you can get down at Dombivili from both sides of the train. You can compare it with the platforms at C.S.T station where you can get down at both sides of platform. Most suburban stations have facility to get down on a platform only on one side. I hope you would have understood it.

Well as Dombivili terminating train arrives only on platform no.2, it is the same platform where you can get down only on one side of the train that is the left side of train. As the train approached the station I could see people flocking on the both sides of train unaware that there is no platform on your right side. Still I could see the crowd growing more on the right side. So much tired were the people that they were unaware that this local train arrives only at platform no.2. Finally as the train approached the station the crowd of people realized their mistake and unknowingly admitted their foolishness.

I thought that this is the extend at which a big city like Mumbai can make you tired!!!!!!!!