Bury Bollywood

By which I mean that the Dir­ector of Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire comes from Bury.  And it’s 99% a first rate, non-Bollywood film span­ning the hor­rendous divide between rich and poor in India.  The flash-back device to show how the hero comes to know the answers in the TV quiz show, in which he is sus­pec­ted of cheat­ing, is very effect­ive. Also some­times the dif­fer­ence between dream and real­ity which isn’t imme­di­ately appar­ent.  Really liked it.    

And the 1% — the clos­ing cred­its had a song-and dance routine by the cast — almost wrecked it.

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One Response to Bury Bollywood

  1. carol says:

    Some of us like the song-and-dance routine.

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