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John Voxx wrote:

Great Topic ! Young man !
You can now see as to how west looks at India. Its a picture perfect description as to how India is.

John Voxx wrote:

The bitter truth is Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by westerners. The talent exists in India for such movies: much of it, like the brilliant actor Irrfan Khan, contributed to this film. But Bollywood producers, fixated with making flimsy films about the lives of the middle class, will never throw their weight behind such projects.
Like Bachchan, they are too blind to what India really is to deal with it. Poor Indians, like those in Slumdog, do not constitute India’s “murky underbelly” as Bachchan moronically describes them. They, in fact, are the nation. Over 80% of Indians live on less than $2.50 (£1.70) a day; 40% on less than $1.25.
A third of the world’s poorest people are Indian, as are 40% of all malnourished children. In Mumbai alone, 2.6 million children live on the street or in slums, and 400,000 work in prostitution. But these people are absent from mainstream Bollywood cinema.”
The contributor goes on to add,“Bachchan’s blinkered comments prove how hopelessly blind he and most of Bollywood are to the reality of India and how wholly incapable they are of making films that can address it.

Nothing more could have expressed my views better.

Proud to be a Bihari wrote:

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what are you? a bloody black ape south indian ugly sl-t , not even your own community dogs would like to kiss you.You Bloody Fcking South Indians. You Black pig looking and donkey as**s looking fellows. You dont even know how to take bath. I saw you stupid fellows in trains , on platforms , on public places you look like bloody beggars who have only one white sheet to wrap their bloody black legs.
You bloody say the Word ” M” as “yam”
south indian apes have high inferiority complex because of their ape tupe primitive looks , bloody English , stupid manners and the bloody dressing style .
Mot of south indian women earn a living by working in porn movies , and these movies are sold in the market as a substitute for animal-sex movies because most of you black ugly chimps easily qualify to be disguised as animals.

The Pentagle wrote:

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F*ck off Swappy.

Sita wrote:

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lol. very true:).

Amitabh wrote:

What a colossal joke this is all turning out to be !! Without reading the text of my blog or the purpose behind mention of ‘SlumDog’ an entire machinery of abuse has been directed towards me.

Fact is. Some one mentioned the film on my blog. Some expressed opinion for it, some against. And yes they contained some strong assumptions. I merely put both of them up and invited debate. I have done this many times on several issues and there has been great involvement. Media, in India has taken the pros and cons of OTHERS, as MINE, built their headlines and put it safely out, thereby, causing the consternation. All the expressions that have been attributed to me are in fact the expressions of others. Or perceived impressions of others. Where is the indication that this impression is concretely mine ? There is none !! And now after having castigated me for something not attributable to me, it has made my real opinion on the film after seeing it, impossible. If I do not like it there will be greater abuse. If I like it, there will be abuse.