Finally I got a chance to watch Danny boyle's slumdog millionaire in complete, what a movie! if what depicted in the movie has any remote resemblance to reality, which it is!! I have no words to explain my emotion! I have seen Mumbai and chennai slums, at one end we have this spell binding screen play and on the other end the hard reality of mamman and salim's existence today and the poverty which created them..
Fifty years in to freedom what have we achieved! we often complain Indians don't get treated well in abroad but what is the respect we share for this slum dwellers! we often go past them as if we hardly notice them, we tend to ignore them as if they don't exist! they are our fellow citizens and many live very decent lives with content. We are what collectively we are (as India) and not just as individuals.
India was a great nation!it is history and it was built by our fathers!! what is it today! and what is it going to look like tomorrow!? It is time to move on and rebuild our nation. Many of us live for the day, we talk about GDP, worry about inflation and depend on the MNCs to bring our bread. I see the economy didn't changed much in last 300 years, we still depend on west and worst most youngsters don't identify with India, we first re branded our language with english now we are re branding the country with west. look around the cities none reflect any similarity to our culture.
Well probably we all need to become global citizen as they say! and lose our differences!! I still don't see why it can't be a Indian global citizen and why it has to be west global citizen :) point is our politicians are not going to change the poverty around here and probably they need them as it exists!and neither they are going to stop preaching the proud history and culture we once had! It is our duty to wake up and improve the quality of life of every citizen here, As young and educated we have a finite time to make the change - resist corruption, encourage entrepreneurs , Share love to needy not mercy and let them know they belong as one of us.
Time moves on and things improve and one day Salim and Jamal's would get chances to lead a decent life in this country!! whether we want to be part of that change is a question we need to ask! and I believe many of us will say YES!!
