Slumdog millionare was winning all the way tonight at the most prestigious awards “OSCARS” , a story of a day to day life of Mumbai captured and well directed by Danny Boyle. Screen play adaption from a novel book : “Q and A” : by Vikas Swarup.
I had a late night sleep around 2 it was all the time on my mind in a few short hours we shall know if rahman brings oscar to home. There i was with a lot other thing running in my mind while i am fixing my alarm for 6.20 am so i dont miss the oscars, I have been following it since 10 yrs missed a few of them due to work but i try to catch them as much as i can. I was up at the alarm walking my way to the hall and settling down in front of my Television as the red carpet begins.
Honestly I wasn’t surprised and I was expecting the movie to win Oscar, I knew we were there from 10 categories and I was damn confident the movie shall pick Oscar for at least the best score. What astonished me was the movie picked up 8 Oscars from 10. I knew the most closed competition was the Brad Pitt’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from Paramount Pictures and “Frost/Nixon” from Universal Pictures, Slumdog Millionare just walked past major competition to bag 8 Oscars.
While the film’s message is upbeat, Boyle is not afraid to use his camera to depict the harsh reality of life in Mumbai, where great wealth often sits cheek-by-jowl with crushing poverty. That willingness to confront social realism was the subject of apparent criticism by Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, who wrote on his personal website recently that dire poverty exists in every culture, not just in India.
The comments were interpreted by the Indian media as a slight on Western directors and their perceptions of the country, although Bachchan has denied he was being critical of Boyle’s success.
Boyle said he and screenplay writer Simon Beaufoy wanted to include “as much of the city as possible that we saw and found. And there are some tough things and there are some extraordinary things.”
Boyle said while the global popularity of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire franchise had helped sell the film, it was the movie’s “universality” that had hooked audiences.”The quiz show obviously helps us in many ways it is so well known in so many different countries,” Boyle said. “But I think it’s the universality of the story – it’s the underdog, against all the odds, succeeding.”
Indian composer A.R. Rahman’s won two Oscars for best song and best score in his highest accolade yet in a career that has taken him from provincial Indian cinema to the Hollywood red carpet. And the movie also scooped Oscars for best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best sound mixing and best film editing.
Accepting the award for best picture, producer Christian Colson said late Sunday the film had been a collaboration by hundreds of people.”Together we’ve been on an extraordinary journey. When we started out, we had no stars, we had no power or muscle,” he said.
“We didn’t have enough money, really, to do what we wanted to do. But what we had was a script that inspired mad love in everyone who read it.”
JAI HO……
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