Why Lagaan couldn’t and why Slummdog can!

I know that Slumdog Millionaire is a good movie (not too good for Oscar nomination), but i simply don’t want to appreciate it. The direction was good, acting was good, cinematography good, music good, story good, dialogue good. I think i have appreciated all the aspect, on which a movie is rated.

Then why i don’t want to appreciate it.

Simply because it shows a dismal picture of India. It tries to prove the age old assertion of West that countries like India are country of snakes and superstitions and is a place with no cultural, moral and human values. I do not say that what has been shown in the movie is false. It is correct. Like we have some Mafia’s active who manage beggars. we have riots in country, Dharavi is bitter truth of Mumbai, bad cops are here.  What is offending me is, we have every evil shown in the movie but not at one time and one place. If we see the quantum then its not larger than the sins of west. And beside India has a golden side too. Why west does not want to show that.

Now come to the headline. Lagaan could not make it to Oscar  because it has shown the true human culture of India and bitter truth of colonial time of Britishers. West wants to prove that we are a curse on the earth and their supremacy on country like India, Afganistan, nigeria, africa are justified.

So i think Slumdog Millionare can conquer Oscar.

Your comments invited.