“Slumdog Millionaire” wins 8 Oscars

Slumdog Millionaire has lived up to the hype and expectations and has bagged 8 Oscars at the 81st annual academy awards. AR Rehman has finally achieved his dream and has won 2 Oscars for a song and the original score.

Guess what? All those Indian celebrities who criticized Slumdog as a film which depicted India in a bad shadow are now changing their words.

Amitabh Bachchan has finally accepted that Slumdog Millionaire was the best and the better film than Delhi 6 which had his son Abhishek in the lead.

He appreciated the work and all the technicians and star cast involved behind its success.

Slumdog Millionaire has bagged 8 Oscars in the following category

Category	Award
Best Picture	“Slumdog Millionaire”
Best director	Danny Boyle for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best screenplay	Simon beauty for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best cinematography	Anthony DOD mantle for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Editing	Chris Dickens for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best original score	AR Rehman for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best original song	“ Jai Ho” By AR Rehman for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best sound Mixing	Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty for “Slumdog Millionaire”

Lagaan was just nominated for Oscars, but “Slumdog Millionaire” has won the award. Though it is a result of a foreigner imagination, the idea, concept and the actors and actresses are from Indian origin.

Indian directors and actors must learn a lesson from this. No one is interested in the film’s financial outcome like the recent Akshay and Aamir Kumar’s films saga of bagging 100-200 crores at the box office. The only thing we Indian need is international recognition for our Indian films. Every Indian will and should feel proud about the “Slumdog Millionaire” achievement and will hope that our Indian actors and directors churn out some stuff like this to at least get nominated for the next Oscars.

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India's fascination with Valentine's Day

The Taj Mahal - India's most famous expression of love

Among the numerous gods of the Hindu pantheon, Kamadev is the lord of love.

He wields a bow of flowers.

Couples fall in love when struck by his rose-decorated arrows.

Valentine's Day is popular with young urbanites

India is also the home of the Kamasutra, the most elaborate treatise on lovemaking.

There are numerous folk tales of legendary lovers who kissed death with a promise to meet, or rather mate, in heaven.

These old tales are so lurid they make Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a pale afterthought.

Indians protesting against Valentine's Day celebrations make one wonder what has happened to the people who once sculpted the passionate love makers on the temple walls at Khajuraho.

That ancient tradition of love died somewhere in the Middle Ages.

No longer was it celebrated in public cultural displays.

Lovers were frowned upon.

Sexual suppression was severe and vehement.

Lovers who came from unequal castes were punished and even occasionally executed.

The tradition of Kamadev was buried and the lessons of the Kamasutra were forgotten - then, a decade ago, Valentine's Day began to make an impression in India.

Recent advent

Before that, hardly anyone celebrated Valentines Day in India.

Purists dubbed it as another decadent influence of the west.

But economic globalisation followed by the emergence of a class of neo-rich brought in a new a culture of fancy dinners and dance clubs, foreign satellite channels and expensive card shops.

Young Romeos are often demanding

Their clientele were the privileged few.

But millions of those who were unable to escape the grind of a meagre life could not be deprived of Valentine's universal gift of love.

Commercial TV channels invented special Valentine shows, dedications of love filled radio programmes and even love letter competitions were organised.

When Indians do something they tend to overdo it.

Weeks before Valentine's Day street Romeos reappear everywhere.

Many of them pretend to enact the Bollywood style boy-meets-girl stories that often degenerate into verbal abuse.

Tough love

Such harassment of women is a widespread problem in many parts of India.

Perhaps to lighten the social guilt it is rather imaginatively described as 'eve teasing'.

Pestering can take the shine off love

This kind of abuse becomes rampant in the days preceding Valentine's Day.

There is simply no escape for those girls uninfected by the love bug.

"It is virtually impossible to get out of your house before you find a love-struck class-fellow waiting for you. And you never know what they will do," said one of the harassed girls.

Sexual crimes are not uncommon in India.

Jilted lovers have strange ways of taking revenge: Verbal abuse, physical assaults, rapes, kidnappings and even throwing of acid and disfiguring a woman for life.

Sociologists have yet to come up with figures, but there is clear evidence that this abuse grows during the Valentine season.

People find ingenious ways to express love.

A few years ago a drunken thug, emulating a Bollywood film hero, arrived on horseback with a gun in his hand.

He fired a shot in the air and declared to the terrified father of the girl he fancied: "The bandit king has not come to destroy your house, but to marry your daughter and to shower prosperity on your house."