Indian filmmaker Priyadarshan slams Slumdog…!

Film maker Priyadarshan has slammed Danny Boyle’s underdog saga Slumdog Millionair, saying the film a “cheap trashy mediocre version” of erstwhile Bollywood hits. He is surprised that Mumbai is celebrating a film that shows only the city’s underbelly.

Priyadarshan said, “Slumdog Millionaire is nothing but a cheap trashy mediocre version of those commercial films about estranged brothers and childhood sweethearts that Salim-Javed used to write so brilliantly in the 1970s.”

“Why are we taking this treatment? Just because a white man has made ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, we’re so happy with it? I’ve read Vikas Swarup’s novel ‘Q&A’. It should have been made by Mani Ratnam. Then you’d have seen what he would have done with Mumbai.”

Priyadarshan asked, “Why has Danny Boyle not taken one shot of Marine Drive? Do his slumdwellers exist only within their slums?”