I admit it, I’m a hypocrite. Just yesterday I wrote “Slumdog, Bas!” I’m not really a hypocrite though since I liked the movie and I’m happy over the film’s success, and love Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan. I just don’t like the Bollywood confusion from the film’s success, or rather the film being mistaken for Bollywood. So brush my hypocrisy aside, as I often do, and enjoy Suzi Mann with Bollywood Insider’s latest chugli reports:
2/27/09: Bollywood Insider Slumdog Oscars party exclusive! We interview Anil Kapoor and Danny Boyle at the Slumdog Oscars party, fresh from scooping 8 awards:
I think the frame scene ending video style, was an homage to Bollywood.
Slumdog is more Charles Dickens than Bollywood.
I think Slumdog is hard to categorise: perhaps one reason I enjoyed it was that it was refreshing to see a film made/structured differently…
A friend from NY rang yesterday and said Jai Ho was no 10 in the charts?
Is that so? That must be another first surely!
Renegade Eye-ji,
Hello neighbor! Yes more Dickens I agree, and while that dancing was an homage, it needed to be more fierce and committed. They needed a choreographer in the background behind the cameras, shouting at them to SMILE! Work it! :)
bawa-ji
Well said hard to categorize, that’s true. It does make me want to see Born into Brothels again. I bet Jai Ho is in the top ten, wouldn’t surprise me. I know that MIA’s Paper Planes was a pretty big hit here well before the movie and was made separate from the movie. I love that song. :)
My friend said she has now heard a version of Jai Ho in English!!! not the same as Gulzar’s lyrics, I suppose.
I remember reading about the English version. It’s about okay. More info here (link may require subscription):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123568984902087603.html
bawa-ji aur theBollywoodFan-ji,
Thanks to both of you for the information on the English version of the tune. I appreciate your updates. :)