And the Opera thing, yeah, no idea.

Of course as a piece of art it has no other duty other than being art. Boyle, ARR, everyone worked hard to bring it to life, and if their is any claim to ownership it IS theirs.

My point of course being when proponents or fans of art like something, can they not feel happy if their point of view is validated?

I didn’t like “oye lucky”, I felt Abhay’s acting wasn’t quite upto scratch. It might have been because of the direction or maybe because he’s still relatively new.

I loved Dev D. More! More like this please!

The word meh (and I’m sure you will get this) sums up my feelings about Slumdog. To me it was a cross between Parinda (what with the Paro/Latika love of my life I met on the street angle) and a Manmohan Desai movie (except his name isn’t Vijay). This movie really didn’t have an impact on me. Of course, that’s just my opinion and thankfully, s’pore is too far away for you to kill me

I don’t believe art in general should be seen as belonging to a country. I think of art as an intensely personal thing both in production and perception. The movie belongs to Boyle, AR and the other people who worked on it. And as far as I go, that’s that. India/UK/US whatever have nothing to do with it.

Heck, I think the whole idea of nation states is hopelessly outdated but that it another discussion. As such, when a movie I like wins an award I am glad for the recognition it receives.

Right, enough rambling, must get back to work. Good write up. Points well presented and possibly the only Slumdog related write up that doesn’t make me want to cover my ears.

PS Will try