Slumdog Millionaire, de Dany Boyle, um filme social britânico baseado em um romance ambientado na Índia, arrasou na 81º Cerimônia da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas. Suas equipes britânica e indiana levaram 8 Oscars, incluindo o de melhor filme. Foi realmente um dia especial para a Índia porque ‘Smile Pink‘, um curta-documentário baseado na Índia, também ganhou um Oscar.
Uma parte do elenco de ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ em Hollywood- foto de Flickr User KaushiK™, usada sob licença de Creative Commons.
Pessoas de todo o mundo assistiram à cerimônia do Oscar. Algumas estavam bloggando ao vivo durante o evento, como Sepia Mutiny. Havia centenas de mensagens de Twitter aparecendo de minuto a minuto durante a transmissão ao vivo, onde vozes como Raajesh disse:
Prerna, em No Borders and Binaries, disse:
A horde of Indian invaders and their British allies on tourist visas took home the coveted and prized Oscars as the world watched. One in particular, A R Rahman, dazzled and charmed everyone with his musical genius while also speaking sentences in Tamil. This is America, English-only!!
E certamente havia muitos que não gostaram da invasão dos indianos no Oscar:
Skineval: Cara, esses indianos estão arrasando no Oscar. Primeiro, nossos call centers, agora, os Oscars. Qual será o próximo?
Mas muitos bloggueiros indianos não estavam muito entusiasmados em reconhecer a façanha de ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Nós destacamos as diferentes reações de muitos indianos sobre esse filme em um post anterior no Global Voices. Muitos moradores das favelas de Mumbai, onde o filme foi rodado, protestaram porque eles foram chamados de favelados no filme.
Meera Sinha escreve:
Despite feeling that Slumdog Millionaire shouldn’t be viewed as a defining film about Indian poverty, it’s been exciting to see India in the limelight after the movie’s 8 Oscar wins. I’m tempted to write more, but I’ll give into the celebratory moment and avoid going into any further detail about my issues with the film.
Great Bong em Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind não estava tão impressionado assim:
For one, Slumdog Millionaire very deliberately and very effectively strikes many of the chords that Academy judges have been known to have a soft spot for. In order to ace an exam, you do not necessarily have to be the best —even an average person can excel if he/she can understand the “system” and do exactly what is expected. Slumdog Millionaire does that admirably.
Hitesh Bagai se pergunta em uma mensagem de Twitter:
Lekhni em The imagined Universe tenta descobrir “Por que os indianos odeiam Slumdog Millionaire?“
I wonder if our main objection to the movie is because it depicts a part of India we’d rather not focus on. We’d like to celebrate our economic growth and our resurgent middle class. We’d like to point to our new malls and glass-fronted buildings. The movie does not show much of the prosperity of middle class India. It shows the other India that not many of us know very well, or would like to think about – the poor India that has remained poor despite all the recent economic growth.
Shripriya Mahesh em Tatvam (Inner Truth) amou o filme e escreve:
Why on earth should any filmmaker be burdened with representing a city or a country? He’s not making a documentary. There’s a story to be told. It involves a sliver of a view of a city. From the point of view of one fictitious life. The filmmaker’s job is to tell that story to the best of his/her ability. And that’s exactly what Danny Boyle did. And I for one, loved the result.
Prerna destaca as qualidades da Índia e conclui com:
Sure, it took a British director to make a movie on an ‘Indian subject’ to get Oscars for Indian technicians who have been doing superior work for decades (i.e. Gulzar, A R Rahman, Pookutty). Slumdog Millionaire is nowhere near the A-list of Bollywood movies given it’s simple tried-and-tested theme of love over money. And this isn’t A R Rahman or Gulzaar’s best work. At the same time, it is heartening to see these musical greats finally getting international recognition for what is ultimately an Indian movie. However, THAT should not be a marker for success. AR Rahman doesn’t need Hollywood; Hollywood needs him.
Congratulations nonetheless, to Slumdog Millionaire and to every Indian that considers this their movie.
Apesar disso, parabéns para Slumdog Millionaire e para todo indiano que o considera filme deles.