Slumdog Millionaire-"Revel Notoriety" or "Die in oblivion"

When Mark,my Spanish flatmate, walked in after watching SlumDog
and asked me "Is it really like that ? Is everyone so poor out there ?"

I could not help shaking my head with "Its-not-all-like-that"
I mean there is no denying Its exists

Poverty
Beggary
crime
Communal violence
Corruption

Danny Boyle just bolstered the shady underbelly of India.I dont blame
him a bit,he is making a movie,he is telling a story and he tells it
with brilliance.
He is not making a statement on India .

But still there is a morbid fascination with everything sordid in India.He packaged all stereotype India has together to make the background for protagonist and other characters stark and ugly .
Just like an average tourist happily capturing poverty of India
on ground of creativity .
The movie harps on the fact subconsciously that India is marred with such incidents ,maybe it is .
But then thats not India in nut-shell.

Having said that I still say that I enjoyed the movie.

But its difficult for me digest the fact that millions of non-indians
out there will walk out of the theatre conjuring images of abject poverty,corruption and crime for my country .

It poses a question to every Indian "Revel Notoriety" or "Die in oblivion".Rehman rocks anyway :-)


May be the "All characters in this movie are fictional and has no resemblance to dead or living " at start could be made bolder before
screening.

Just a Thought :)