Salaam Bombay was a great film. Fatalism is a fairly routine human condition, structurally we know that. There is nothing wrong in depicting such a human condition (BTW I have not seen the movie).
Anthony On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:52 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Slum Dog Millionaire" is a tiresome piece of feel-good Dickensian/Horatio >> Alger narrative, which gets its color and emotional content from the misery >> of the Mumbai poor. The sub-text however is pretty egregious: "it is all >> fated" -- logically both the misery of the masses and the success of the >> protagonist. >> > > > I thought "Dickensian/Horatio Alger" is an oxymoron! Anyway what you say is > true, but I liked the movie because it manages to be entertaining in spite > of its grim subject matter, a feat that other movies on the subject of > Mumbai misery ("Salaam Bombay") never achieved. > > And I didn't get that subtext of fatalism.. > -raghu. > > > -- > The meek shall inherit the earth, if that's OK with you. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 24, 3 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Email:[email protected] Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 PhD in INDIAN STUDIES WEBSITE http://frontpage.cbs.dk/jobs/stil.pl?func=details&id=1147 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc www.cbs.dk/india xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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