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Slumdog Millionaire’ worst film I have seen, says Karnad in Goa

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Padma Bhushan awardee and Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad Monday called “Slumdog Millionaire” the worst film he has ever seen.

Karnad, a towering, multi-faceted creative personality in the field of theatre, literature, acting and academics, was speaking at a lecture on ‘Colonialism and Culture’ at the D.D. Kosambi lecture series, organised by the government of Goa in Panaji.

“I have never seen anything worse than ‘Slumdog Millionaire’,” Karnad said during a question-answer session which followed his lecture.

He also said the movie had completely failed in India. India’s hunger for Oscars showed “our own inferiority complex”, he added.

“I don’t know why we are obsessed with the Oscars or the Grammy (Grammy awards),” Karnad said, adding that the Indian film industry was perfectly healthy in every sense of the word.

Released in 2008, Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the 81st Academy Awards by winning eight Oscars. Out of the eight awards, three were won by Indian artistes - Resul Pookutty, A.R. Rehman and Gulzar.

Courtesy:TOI


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  1. Firstly, I have been to Goa. Two years ago to be exact. I live in the United States. For most Indians, Goa is the paragon of beach resort life, because it really is one of the finer beach destinations in India. The beaches don’t smell like raw sewage like Mumbai’s, and since there are many European travelers, the city is kept cleaner than all other cities in India.

    Secondly, having said that. Goa is by far one of the worse beaches compared to other much finer destinations like Bora Bora, the Caribbean, Hawaii, etc. Compared to these other beaches, there really is no reason to go to Goa if you can afford to travel to the other nicer beaches in other countries. Goa, to a large degree, is visited by two kinds of tourists: a) trance enthusiasts, and b) it’s cheap!

    Let me weigh in the second kind of visitors, the Euro-trash and poor Russians. The beaches are lined up with overweight, barely walking beach whales who have the poor Indian beach runners do their bidding. It was a sight to behold in disgust.

    My wife and I are very well traveled, so we have the benefit of being able to compare how Goa’s beaches stack up against the others in the resort class. Goa is near the bottom. I’m not bashing Goa, I”m just saying it’s not all that. If you’re Indian you’ll probably never have the resources to visit other beaches so this is what you’ve got. I’m just saying that sometimes I’ve noticed that Indian pride gets in the way of objective judgement and common sense.

    Long story short, I may return to Goa to visit the trance scene, but otherwise, I have no reason to go back there.

    1. MarkInDelhi on March 21st, 2010 at 6:22 am

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