Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 25th, 2008
On DVD & Blu-ray:March 31st, 2009
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Movie Budget:$15,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$378,400,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Paul Smith
Production Companies:Celador Films, Film4 Productions
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Slumdog Millionaire Quotes
Comparing Slumdog Millionaire: Film vs. Book
Quotes about Slumdog Millionaire:
*About the difference between the movie and the book. Koenraad Elst, On Modi Time : Merits And Flaws of Hindu Activism In Its Day Of Incumbency – 2015. Ch.7 Vikas Swarup
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Manipulation of Identity in Slumdog Millionaire
Quotes about Slumdog Millionaire: [Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based; [w:Danny Boyle|Boyle]
explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while ] had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media.
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