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...getting a little, well, implausible and hackneyed. Sandipan Deb, writing in the daily newspaper the Indian Express on the morning after the Oscars, insisted that despite the awards for composer A.R. Rahman, sound mixer Resul Pookutty and lyricist Gulzar, the film is still a "Western" film, made by a British director and financed by a British producer. "It's a non-Indian film which happened to have an all-Indian cast," he wrote. This is missing the point. Danny Boyle could not have made the film that he did without this cast and crew, and to pretend otherwise...
...colonialists, took Best Picture. This time the entire cast was Indian or of Indian heritage; none of them had made an English-language feature film before; and three of the Oscar-winners were Indian: superstar composer A.R. Rahman, the renowned lyricist Gulzar and one of the sound mixers, Resul Pookutty. Rahman remembered his roots by hailing "all the people from Mumbai and the essence of the film, which is about optimism and the power of hope and our lives." (Watch director Boyle answer readers' questions...
...surprised with its win in the Short Documentary category. Indian TV anchors have been wildly ecstatic, but reactions outside newsroom are decidedly mixed. Some feel happy for Slumdog's Indian connection - especially for the awards for A.R. Rahman (best original score and for theme song Jai Ho) and Resul Pookutty (best sound mixing) - yet many feel the film was overrated. Critics opine the awards signal a belated acceptance of Bollywood's song-and-dance formula, but point out that this is a win for a western film, made by a westerner (British director Danny Boyle), for a western audience...
...Resul Gunasta, eight years old, was throwing a tennis ball yesterday to a few of his friends on a playground in front of the Edward Devotion School, where JFK attended his first year of school about three blocks from his 83 Beals St. birthplace...
...wish to call special attention. At the joint request of the Republican Club and the Democratic Campaign Club we have undertaken the reballoting of certain departments of the college - the freshman class, first year Law School and Scientific School, and the counting of all the ballots, the final resul to be officially published by us. It is a very difficult undertaking to get the votes of these three departments and the committee earnestly request that each member of them will make out his ballot according to the plans as printed and do what he can individually to assist them...
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