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...director, and I just went back to doing that. I listened to people, talked to people." From these wanderings came moments that give the film its pungent life, like the scene in which Jamal jumps into a mound of human waste to get the autograph of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan...
...film generated controversy in India even before its release there. A Jan. 13 blog entry by Bollywood maharaja Amitabh Bachchan, in which he asked if the film would have generated such hype if it had been made by an Indian director, led to an avalanche of Bollywood stars and critics taking positions for and against him. On Jan. 22, some 40 slum dwellers protested outside the Mumbai home of actor Anil Kapoor, who plays a leading role in the film. The protesters held banners reading "I Am Not a Dog" - referring to slumdog in the film's title - and "Poverty...
...last five years," he notes, "they've been seeking a wider international audience, so they've been toning down their more risible cultural specificities." (Translation: fewer wet-sari production numbers.) This year Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear will play in Toronto, with all-time megastar Amitabh Bachchan - India's Brando and Fred Astaire in one big, bearded package - gracing the event...
...staff in Rhythmics, a DVD shop in an incense-filled underground market below Delhi's Connaught Place, were puzzled by my questions. The salesman scanned the walls of DVDs and then turned to me with a forlorn look on his face. "Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan fighting? No, we don't have that movie available. What's it called?" Next door, in a shop stacked high with the very latest movies, manager Kuldeep Singh dismissed the feud as "just newspaper attitude." "They make it up to sell more," he said with smile. "How can there be a fight when...
...prove his point he reached under the glass counter and pulled out a DVD of the movie Eklavya. "You see, this is real acting," he shouted. When was this released, I asked, surprised to see Bachchan's latest big screen triumph already in the stores. "Tomorrow. No, next week," he replied. "You want...