Aamir Khan offers his honest reaction to "Slumdog Millionaire"
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- Bollywood's biggest star Aamir Khan offers his honest reaction to "Slumdog Millionaire"
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I get what AK means.. Just imagine if the movie Parasite was made with English dialogues to please the Western audience.. It would have lost its essence... It was made for Korean Audience... It still got many academy Awards... Including the best Picture..
yeah thats true , unnecessary English from original actors was not a good idea,it should have been fully in hindi , then they could have released a dubbed version if they wanted , but maybe back then it was different , but now see even sacred games is being watched all over the world
Yes
Cuz the director was korean so he did it..but slumdog mill...british film for whole world not for only india..but sub title can be added...but british film,british producer..that was their choice...N ofcourse this movie should be in English..this is not bollywood film.. personally I enjoyed the movie..thats all
Exactly my point.
@@suranjan2457 bhai tu chup reh
I like the honesty when he said he doesn't represent India in purity.. he accepted his flaws and weaknesses
Not purely Indian doesn't mean flawed
@@despacito4668 Yea totally agree...
And in that respect, nobody can be a pure representation of India...
We all have a multitude of influences around us, especially now in the digital age...
@@Henry-ul7uh your shitty country is a joke
@@gamenesea1064 I live in Sweden.
@@nb2381 what did Henry say exactly, he deleted it...
The fact is, india is so large and diverse in culture any indian can tell you "india is like this" and be 100% true but then the next indians statement completely contradicts the firsts statement and is also 100% true. Where my family is in india everyone told me NO ONE has English as a first language. But my indian friend living in aust said her first language was english. Some say india is a slum, others say india is developing. Some say india can never change from its thousands of years of traditions, others say they have changed so much. The fact is 1000s of languages, 10s of states 1000s of cultures. Slums are everywhere as are high rise buildings
can u help me find a film similar to slumdog millionaire? in terms of it's feeling of adventure
Ambi tion I saw it
People are unable to articulate their response embedding their personal experience as a reference, so they end up making general statements. Language problem.
Very well said
@@JustinianG 3 idiots
Algorithm took me here after 10 year's lol
Better late than never
This is so true. Just like the way Nigerians are depicted in most Hollywood movies... it doesn’t even come close to who we are and how how we do or say things here. They only base it on those in diaspora that they’ve met.
Nigerian cinema is I think 3rd biggest in the world
@@soundwavesuperior6761 what the hell are you saying bro? It wasn't a racist colonial joke. It's a fact that British ruled over India for 190 years. It's a fact that India was a British colony till 1947. It's a fact that many Indians at that time spoke English in a slightly British accent. You can listen to political leader's English speeches. Stop getting offended and crying. There are tons of better ways you can spend your time
@@soundwavesuperior6761 seems like you can't digest facts 😂😂😂
@@soundwavesuperior6761
That African American quote is something a white dude wouldn't say on television stop lying.
Aamir Khan, wow, so well-spoken in this interview! I was glued to whenever he spoke, what elegance and honesty with his answers
My foot
@@kumarnarendra1873 fuck off buddy
Wow, he shares his point of view , So many friends of mine did not like parasite but I did .I did not like joker but many of my friends liked it .Amir khan was right about India being intolerent.
he is very hypocrite person
@@oneway3184 So are you but do you see us complaining about it?
Dharavi is as much a reality for India as is The Marine Drive.
And thats what is his point, you can't represent dharavi alone as entire diversity of India. Ofc you can, but just that it doesn't really connects to us.
@@gurujojo8992 marine drive is not a road,its an emotion
Visit the people sitting out there and you will know
@@machimedicos many people donot connect with indian slums because its not their life
Police speaking English is far fetch but whole villages randomly bursting into song and synchronised dance every now and then oh ye that happens in India all the time hahaha
Well Hollywood is supposed to REALISATIC, and do u know the meaning of a musical?
Trust me it does happen, its part of our culture that's how it is reflected in movies.
abhijeet vaidya Stop lying, I was born in India too, synchronized dance numbers among general public on the streets never ever happen out of the blue LMAO
@@wander_plug1369 have you ever atttended garbha or ganpati visarjan
abhijeet vaidya Yes I have, I’ve even attended them here in the states, but the difference is that they are organized just like a high school prom. Bollywood movies project as if the people on the streets minding their own business join the actors in a dance extravaganza out of nowhere with an invisible band playing music somewhere in the forbidden dimension lol, that to me that is much more unrealistic than cops speaking english
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Seriously though, I as an american, never was arrogant enough to assume it spoke for India because I've never been there and I know that hollywood misinterprets almost everything it represents. However, who cares where it takes place? It's a story. It's a beautiful story and I adore the film and my love for it has nothing to do with where it takes place, or if it does it is just a tiny fraction of the film's appeal.
Kitura the thing is slumdog millionare was a good represantation of india. Khan is in denial because he was born rich. He doesnt know the struggle
@@suuwooski6416 Well most Americans are racists is also true but they are not going to accept it. Since it makes them uncomfortable.
@@harir6316 cope
We should make a film on american supremacists amd give it oscar. Plz dont get triggered oka
@@harir6316 Yeah, that's why every brown person on earth is dying to come to America, so they can get shit on by all the racists, right? So they can work hard and never build their wealth and never have any friends or own businesses or enjoy life. Right? That's why America is 100% made of white people and all the non-white people just run screaming to brown countries. Do you even know what the word racist means?
I can imagine being Indian and finding Slumdog irritating. I think it pissed off some people being a UK film and not Bollywood but being so successful. You can see he is struggling to criticise it. That's because it's not so far from the truth. I've been to India. Much of it is highly developed. Much isn't.
He criticised it because it wasn't believable. India does have a large English-speaking population but the only ones who converse in English primarily before other languages is the urban middle class population, surely not slum kids or policemen. Had they been speaking in Hindi throughout the film like the little kids did in the beginning of the movie, it would've been more believable from an Indian standpoint. Obviously they were making a film for an international audience so the Indian perspective wasn't really a priority.
It's like making a film set in Germany with an all-German cast but they're conversing in British-accented English. The rest of the world might find it believable because they've never been to Germany so they wouldn't know any different but to the regular German it just wouldn't make any sense.
Aamir Khan has produced a film called Peepli Live (which is really worth a watch if you have the time or interest) which was set in rural India, and also hosted a show called Satyamev Jayate which talks about the everyday problems of the common man, so I don't think showcasing the poverty in India was as big a deal to him.
wikichris he isn't struggling to criticize it, he's trying to be diplomatic with his words. Yes, Indians hate this film, but not because we are out of touch with reality, but because this film is no representative of any reality of any part of India. We are suckers for social justice movies, if it really depicted things as it is, we would've loved it
wikichris Actially it is irritating for different reasons. It looked fake when made by foreign filmmaker’s with characters from slums talking in English.
@Jimmy Greer You have literally no idea about Indian cinema, people like Scorsese who understands cinema knows about it better. FYI people are inspired by our great filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Mira Nair, G. Aravindan to name some. But these legends are forgotten due to ignorant, arrogant nature of white people with the tyrant ideology of white supremism. Even Kurosawa said, "if you haven't seen the cinema of Satyajit ray than it's like you've never seen the sunrise." The real India is so vast and glorious that even we Indians can't understand the great nation of ours completely. And you think spending a month or two will make you enough intelligent so that you can comment on real India and Indians than you're living in an illusion. India's infinite charm and eternal variety with cultural heritage and historic achievements make it what it is today. India was not founded by someone like the USA was, India was just there with its variety, it's people.
You won't be surprised that because of British slumdog millionaire made on indian otherwise it would be made on Britishers.
I have known the lives of slum-dwellers of Mumbai from my childhood, though I myself didn't live in one. Being a Cotton green resident some of my classmates used to come from surrounding slums. Agreed some slums could be worst than Cottongreen, but what was shown in that movie was very unbelievable and demeaning.
Slumdog millionaire does not depict the life of every indian person. But yes, some people in India have done and still do, live lives like the ones portrayed
Aamir just exudes honesty and authenticity
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Damn. That went smooth. No one noticed it
noticed what?
@@RusselKabirTR That was a clever joke, I liked it anyway
Oscar is made only for western countries, there are many movie which is far better then hollywood oscar winner
If india could send a better film to oscar then india could get opportunity
But we sent the worst movie like gully boy
Les Grossman check the history of Bollywood specially old ones Bollywood have greater movies than Hollywood I never cried watching a Hollywood movie but in Indian movies they put soul in it and Bollywood have better love story movie titanic
@Les Grossman That's simply not true. I have watched every single Oscar winner for Best Picture and with the exception of Parasite, I can name a better bollywood film from each year. India has made so many better films that get no recognition because you're all to busy judging us on our commercial films (that are also better than most hollywood commerical flicks but that's a different story).
That's an opinion, right. Judging films are in perception. Personally, there are some foreign films I thought were amazing and the Oscars ignored them. However, there are also years where I think the Oscars were right and foreign films were not as good. I have been moved by both English and Foreign Language films.
Also, if this was not clear, when I talk about foreign films Bollywood is included. I just might not appreciate it bc of how I was raised. Idk tho because alot of my favorite films are from a foreign language.
The thing about slumdog millionaire is that no bollywood movie has ever shown that part of life as authentic as this film . So kudos to slumdog millionaire
correct but his point is accurate about the language thing. How can kids who never went to any school are speaking in English in the movie set in India?? Just look at Parasite, authentic Korean movie and if you want to understand there is always Subtitles.
@@carpediem8533 a movie is just a movie, regional or national or international is not something to be considered here. Accuracy in storytelling and plot setting is the important part, i just gave you an example with parasite which is a Korean movie that doesn't mean it's only for Korean audience. Use subtitles, simple. Even the director of parasite said something about subtitles in his acceptance speech at the golden globe this year. That was just a mistake by the filmmaker and he actually corrected himself in "Lion" which was also nominated for oscar. So I don't understand your movie being international point.
@@carpediem8533 India slums have good sanitation and slums people too live healthy but it is not depicted in the movie
Watch more film, Slumdog was a shitty movie
How many bollywood movies have you seen. Indian slums are not that bad as they shown. Hope Westerners will get some sense and see india the way it is not like the way you want to see it.
Yt is recommending it today after 10 years on his birthday : )
Absolutely agree one hundred percent. Most of these hollywood directors are unable to capture the essence of India.
I mean most Bollywood directors cant do it either. They have a romanticized fantastical version you 3 idiots is true to life in India.
It also doesn't sound right when an English Officer speaks in Hindi in Thugs of Hindostan😂😂
Fuck yeah😂
Or in the girl on the train. The police officers speak in Hindi when it’s set in London.
Nailed it
_Tum sala garib log hamare joote ke neeche rahega_
People made picture about India on the basis of that one movie.. India has a very vast diversity.. you go to south and you go to north.. you will find totally different types of people and culture and weather.. even if you just visit neighbouring states there is still vast differences in Infrastructure, weather,culture,people & everything. The vast diversity of India is what that makes it different from other countries.
Blah blah blah...there's feces all over the place
@@harshs7198 😂
North or South all 70% of people are in poverty most them are buggers most of indians are slave of political parties and politicians shame bron this bugger country 😕
haha he did well at being diplomatic ... really apt answer. love it !!
Slumdog Millionaire had English speaking police because it was made for the whole world to understand
not for our Hindi Indians
and the slum life was depicted very accurately
kids are taken from slums by Gangs and made to beg on the road for money, and in certain cases, these Slum Mafias also cut out a kid's arm or blind him so people will feel more sorry and give more money
and people do defecate out in the open in the slums
i am Indian, and i know what the slums are like, and what the life for poor people is like in India
and Slumdog Millionaire depicted India more accurately than any Bollywood Romantic Fantasy film,
and directors like Karan Johar, Rohit Shetty, Sajid and Farah Khan, and almost 90% of all Bollywood directors shoot their films out of India in a foreign country, and never depict India for what it truly is
so stop saying Slumdog Millionaire is not accurate
you haven't seen lion then, its from boyle, later on he realized this issue and corrected here. In this movie all the indian talk in their native tongue.
U idiot..english subtitles can also b added
Have you seen Narcos ?? Whole series in Spanish but it is made for American audience primarily.
@@tejas2620 exactly. Good point. So is Dirilis Ertugrul only in Turkish but made for world audience
Lol Lagaan was far more accurate than SlumDog millionaire
The interviewer is like Russel Crowe in Beautiful mind..
I also could relate that I became unaware of many regional writers and knowledge about the region I'm from in India as my reading became restricted mostly in English language after a particular time point since my college days. As a kid I used to read many periodicals designed for children in my mother tongue. It's true that I gained a lot by reading in English of books from several different times and regions. But now I would like to also go back and enjoy reading some historical fictions of regional writers.
You should be proudly say i am an Indian 🇮🇳 , this is the country and peoples because of them you are sitting in that interview and enjoying stardom .
English is just a language it doesn't make you less indian.
Like once Ned said, Everything before the word 'But' is horseshit. :D
He didn't use 'but'... 😎
I see.... but.... winter is coming
watching this now, it feels amazing how priyanka chopra's the white tiger clicks correctly to me as an indian and how amazing it is to me again as an american
This was the time when the word " lot of " was in mainstream
I think Lagaan deserved an Oscar more than slumdog millionaire did.also ar Rehman should have won an Oscar for Lagaan rather than for this movie.the music in Lagaan is just the best works of his entire career.
No it didn't Slumdog millionaire is a masterpiece
@@ShadowOfNexxus Slumdog Millionaire is a fake, illogical movie made by obnoxious Britishers.. Lagaan was far more deserving
Totally agree after watching the making of lagaan documentry
They won't like that movie because then they have to face the atrocities they inflected upon us. Everyone is biased not only indians
Truly Agreed what he said
That was my thought too after watching the movie
By reading the comments, why people here are getting anxious? He was just stating his opinion.. We perceive things in different ways so why full of butthurt.
Common for Indians to get butthurt
@@SomnathBhattacharjeewwe wow and you are what?
Common for humans to get butthurt *
@@Ar-ok1rg Since I haven't been to many places or seen that many faces can't put humans up there in place of an Indian because they're an ideal candidate to perceive offense in all walks of life and I'm Indian too haha see the irony here?! Lol
@@SomnathBhattacharjeewwe Dude trust me, it's common for everyone to get butt hurt these days, just look at Twitter.
@@Ar-ok1rg
I'm an alien. So I'm safe from this disease. ✌
That's why I can listen to Amir.
The slum life shown in Slumdog Millionaire is exactly how it is for those people. Indians in their movies show slums as people who are perpetually sad. But in reality, they enjoy life with whatever means they have. Man finds happiness in whatever he gets.
Im a Filipino and Slumdog is one of my favorite movies!I even showed this to my students to help them realize how fortunate they are to have at least two Nikes hahahaah
This is worst movie which stereotypes one particular country i don't know about Phillipines but in india everyone hate this movie
@@Itsmeandmy you are taking the wrong message from the movie. its not stereotyping, its raising awareness.
Very diplomatic ,very correct. Just like always.
The movie was called Slumdog Millionaire, so of course it will show the life of Slum Dwellers in India. It also points out Indias poverty to bring some awareness to the issue. To me it was one of the greatest films ever made. The reason the characters talked in English is because the film was made for an English audience.
I like Aamir Khan a lot, but he messed up on this interview. Bollywood actors are mostly privileged people from the time they were born, so of course the slum life is far from his reality. Plus how is a Bollywood actor in any way schooling people on what is reality. 95 percent of Indian movies are so fake, with their choreographed dances on Swiss mountains, with cheesy love stories, they should be the last to talk about reality. But I do give Aamir credit for being one of the better and realistic film makers of India
I disagree. I really enjoyed the film but I understand what he is saying in this context. If you watch a film on a subject that you know very well, for example your profession, then anything that does not ring true takes you out of the immersion. I work in healthcare and so if I watch a medical drama/film I notice all the mistakes and it becomes very jarring and difficult to watch as you are removed from the immersion even if it is a good film narratively speaking.
I agree to everything you just said
artspooner I agreed when I watched this film, the main actor who grew up in he slums having a British accent through me off, it wasn't realistic but I understand it was targeted to the western audience
I was waiting for him to say "but I understand this was meant for an English audience," but he didn't....
Nope ........Jackie Shroff was a leading man in bollywood in 1980s and 1990s is not from a privileged background.....akshay kumar , sunil shetty and many big stars have really struggled hard......
From what I'm gathering, Indian people's main criticism of this movie is that people speak English in it. Well fucking shock horror guys, a western-made film targeting English-language audiences will use English as its medium. Audiences don't want to read subtitles the whole time. Slumdog Millionaire is much more realistic & gritty than a lot of the bullshit Bollywood movies made nowadays. Slumdog Millionaire actually shot their scenes on location in actual slums, not on prop sets. And yes, face it guys, Mumbai struggled, and still does, with corruption and gangsters and homelessness and extreme poverty, there's no two ways about it and no need to pretend it doesn't exist. And the scene where the mother dies is taken from the 1992-93 Bombay Riots where hundreds of Muslims & Hindus died in religious violence, leaving hundreds/thousands of kids without parents. The story is extremely plausible and highlights the struggles that some faced in India in the 90s, and are still facing today. Just because you don't want to admit its true, or want to brush it under the carpet, doesn't mean India doesn't have major problems. Hollywood & western media is self-deprecating by nature, they often portray their own countries & situations in a bad, and sometimes more honest, light. Just because a lot of Indian media doesn't do this, doesn't mean western media is trying to show India as the worst place ever. The truth often hurts and it's disingenuous to dismiss the problems highlighted in this film as anti-Indian propaganda
No one except Brits tries to harm India by all these means, soon you'll pay dearly
@@ChandanMishra-ql1bi I doubt it, Chandan
I would also like to point out that India is not synonymous with slums. That's what I see some authors and film makers portraying about this country which is extremely negative
Most poor people who migrated can relate to the poverty, the rich are just embarassed by it. The poor needs films about them too. In indian films everyone is a millionaire for no reason.
That's what I say when people ask me about SDM. I can understand why people love it that much who do not have a reference point. :-)
rightly said by aamir!
I see what he is saying. But then again, I still love and enjoy the movie. I don't understand why anyone would stop enjoying the content of a movie simply because it is not a realistic depiction of anything.
Because of this movie, a stereotype took birth almost evrywhere, I've been critisized at many places where they say that I'm from a country of slums, which, well is completely false..
If you're from america, and I make a movie about Detroit, and everyone starts saying that America is a poor country, how would you feel?
This movie surely is a good movie but people started the 'stereotype' whenever I try to say that India isn't full of slums, they say we've seen slumdog millionaire,
Slums only exist in some areas, there are some cities which are surely beautiful, I mean every country has a good side and a bad side, people only see the bad side of India, India is the most diverse country in the world and I am sure abt that.
Did you know who proposed the 'Sphere Earth' theory? Copernicus? No!!
It was the Indian of 1300BC
These britishers stole our discoveries and showed the world as theirs, the first operations were conducted in India, yes, by sushruta, the plastic surgeries, everything was inspired by Indian books, most mathematical operations like the Pythagoras theoram was already discovered by Indians centuries ago, but you all say India is the most backward country
Sorry for grammatical mistakes
The movie was shit
10 years on and Bollywood (and India) have regressed.
regressed is a weak word bollywood has completely become shit now
In one word. HONEST.
Lagan actually deserved oscar
I have to disagree with AK on this one. Outside of superficial things like the police and the slum urchin speaking in english and in a britsh accent, the first half of the movie was pretty authentic. For example, 1. Riots in India leaving many people devastated 2. The love for Amitabh 3. The cruelty with which everyone treats orphaned street children 4. Many charities sexually and physically abusing children 5. The mafia deliberately maiming children to make them beg 6. underage girls being sold to brothels. 7. street children figuring out how to survive on their own and eventually many joining gangs and becoming like the assholes who abused them in the first place 8. A heavy handed police always terrorizing you. It was all true. The only thing that wasn't true was the happy ending. That never happens for the poorest of the poorest.
Most reasonable comment
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I didn't know this only happens in India. The Civilians entering the airport ,that shit bath,and that who wants to be a millionaire the host beating shit out of that guest was pretty over the top.
@@hyena5313 The shit bath obviously never happens anywhere and was artistic license to describe the love for Amitabh, Rajini etc. The millionaire host and police harassing the guest also never happens anywhere in the world and was ridiculously over the top. Agreed that the aspects you mentioned were completely unrealistic and unnecessary to tell the story.
True
The film was made for global audience (so English) but the context was completely Indian
Thanks Amir sir ....India is shown NEGETIVE to win awards ....I feel like HOLLYWOOD lobby already decided to give award BEFORE SHOOTING only
77% of Indians lived in poverty in the early 1990s, which is when the boys grew up. This story is entirely plausible and there are people who have lived, and still are living, worse lives in India than the boys
@@fin-ed6oj none of the people are living like this, you wouldn't surely like this but it's true😁
@@ChandanMishra-ql1bi in 2023, there are 30 million orphaned children in India. Also, 71 million Indians currently live in absolute poverty. So why don’t you sit down, shut the fuck up, and read a book
He was in Lagann. That movie was AWESOME
Let's admit, his answers weren't apt for more than a majority, the first 'genre change' question & the culture answer he gave were in no connection
He said it so well, that Indians that are in ubran or suburban area are going to English medium school, our childhood has been spent reading English authors, watching Harry Potter etc, so many are actually not that Indian as they might look, although some kids that can't even speak hindi because their parents are English obsessed kinda seems shit to me because that shows their slave mentality that they have but there is a lot of diversification in the Indian youth
Danny used the slum concept to show mumbai slum habitats to the world and added emotions to the characters (which simply and ideally does not exist in slums, the way he has shown in the movie) and addled the emotion quotient in the brains of the rich and the award wagon industry and showcased his mastery in this kind if an art and win accolades and award for his work.. But what do the slums and its children get out of it? What do, the government and administration, of it?
Nothing. Thats the point. Show poverty in india make money . No movie on how british stole 2 trillion dollars from india.
@Theaikro Continued.
I think what the directors and the cast was thinking during the making, was that to tell a story about life. Not a PR movie for the poor people in India. There are plenty of Indian-made movies that have poor vs rich issues, but I haven't seen them to create such a buzz. It is not like it was a secret in the first place. India has world biggest middle class, world biggest % of high educated women per capita. And ofc world biggest lower class and poor families.
I love how he told about indian children speaking heavy British accent but then also did thugs of hindustan ...just kidding he is My fav
Losing all respect for Aamir Khan. His only criticism is that they showed some dialogues in English because the movie was made for an English audience? The book was written by an Indian author. And it's an INCREDIBLE film. The cinematography, sound, music were top of the world at 2009.
I would have loved to be in the audience!
I am with Aamir Khan on this and so are many Indians. Why do the west have to come to India and only find slums to talk about?
I think it was a typical British ideolody of trying to sell a poor India to get a cheapshot at the Oscars.
The fact is slums are everywhere in India and it uses that as a setting to tell an inspirational and gritty story and alot of movies in the western medium also do this as well.
Thiruvetti I support this film. The entire world should know about our situation and our EVIL politicians should be ashamed in front of the whole world.
Because there is always Karan Johar to make movies about rich people and NRIs. Art is not a democracy it was Danny Boyle's choice what story he wanted to tell.
@@rowshonnabi5158 you're right
@@meghnasaha4349 exactly they depict purely fictional stories which are nowhere true.. 70% of India is in villages and conditions there are extremely poor!
I totally disagree with amir khan with both the points because in India most of population thinks in there mother tongue language which they speak at their home.. And it's definitely not english in most of the case and the second point which you are saying you haven't seen children of slum speaking in English...it's a movie which is dubbed in English you can find version also
But how the hell the questions of the show(where anil kapoor ask questions) was only related to Western countries
Amir Khan is talking about middleclass indians . He is talking from a rich perspective not from the poor.
@@boshirahmed i am middle class and i dont speak english at least at home
@@arpitpatra You speak to it your friends. Come on. You talk to your friends more than your family. Too many languages in India, english is a national language, so I guess you can talk to someone from any part of india who is college educated.
So british people speaking in hindi in thugs of hindustan is what..
Back thn during the british rule alot of british people used to grow up in india since they were children, so alot of them knew how to speak in hindi and understand it.
I have read alot of history and came to know that at that the British people are so much connected with Indian people they learnt to speak hindi like us. So, it is not strange that they are speaking in hindi in that movie.
That's actually a different case. Although the movie sucked, the movie was set around in the British rule... so, in order to communicate with people the "British" had to learn Hindi (Historically speaking)
Also,THE MOVIE WAS BADD
0:06 whole india is transforming 😌🇮🇳🙏❤️
i thought he didnt do interview's?...
This movie made me cry, years soaked saturated in handkerchief.
Sometimes it's hard to have a speech without tears rolling down cheeks
This comment made me laugh, days passed with humour always in the air.
Sometimes its hard to not laugh without tears rolling down the cheeks
Poetry 💯
Well spoken 👏
This guy is nuts. The movie highlighted the ever evolving poverty issue in India and he's saying that it doesn't reflect on what India really is? Imao. He was born in a rich family so obviously he's gonna think like this.
Honestly, as much as the movie has its merits, it all boils down to it reinforcing that the West is stronger and that India should be looked down upon. I think poverty and classism remains an issue in all nations and societies, no matter how developed one may be. The movie, like all other Western movies set in India, just chooses to fetishise than highlight the "ever-evolving poverty issue".
If I have to recommend a film that depicts the city of Mumbai very well on all fronts, watch Mani Ratnam's "Bombay". I think it showcases past tragedies in the city very well and might be an interesting way for you to get to know more about India.
As once an elite of British era said "India is not one nation,but nations amongst nations". And so their policy of divide and rule came... which is much more effective today than those days. We also say "Kos Kos par badle paani, kadam kadam par baani".
There are people across the world who think that every second Indian is a PhD. Some still take it to be country of snake charmers. Some take it to be of Kings and followers...some of beggars and poor people. Some of industries and various business houses or some take it as of only a lot of people and agricultural dependent village society with black magic and bullock carts with supersonic jets armed with nuclear warheads parked besides them. Strange, isn't it.. But India is only known only to one who truly knows India. Jai Bharat.
2 people were concerned about who was watching over the Quickie Mart.
Everyone in the subcontinent who gets an education for like 18 years will most likely be good in english. They might be shy speaking it in front of an audience but most of them can do that as the whole education system is basically in english.
Ji yes that is also true
It was actually a good observation when we talk abt details. A slam boy speaking English in a brit accent makes no sense.
Absolutely
2:21
SO THATS WHY IN THUGS OF HINDHUSTAN WHITE BRITISH SOLDIERS SPOKE IN PERFECT HINDI
Please don’t forgot Slumdog Millionaire is an adapted screenplay for original book written by an Indian.
Western movies and perspectives about others culture simplifies what is otherwise a vast and complex reality. That in itself is a great gift for audience but also a great injustice to the host nations. I think that's kind of the point Aamir is trying to make.
You would be surprise on how much culture and honour poor people have, remember they are not beggars, just poor. More then the richer, in my own experience. Every country have its problems. And making "poor movie" will not help India. What do you think will happen in the best possible scenario? Rich country will lend a hand to India and help out its poor citizens? Don't be naive.
I liked the movie, I really did. And I know that this kind of things happen in India.
Continued....
Absolutely true
but a guy dodging hundreds of bullets and fighting off hoardes and then breaking into song and dance and riding off into the sunset with the heroine is the real essence of india he connects with.ITS A FILM!
He didn't say that either, nor you will find him doing such movies, at least in the recent times. Also, his point is still valid
Not in 2 decades lol
The points coming from Aamir Khan are ironical, because in his own film Thugs of Hindustan (2018), we had British army officers speaking amongst themselves in Hindi, which was so ridiculous to watch. Probably Aamir forgot all about this interview he had given and the points he raised.
This is 9 years ago
except that brit colonial officers probably did talk in hindi...how else would they communicate....also thugs of hindustan was a total flop
The problem is Slumdog Millionaire received international acclaim, it has to be held to a different standard. Particularly because it actually had a significant influence on how people from other countries view India.
@@shubhamdeshpande6320 if the Brits talked Hindi amongst eachother than that seems weird but if they only talked Hindi with the Indians than that makes alot of sense.
Except there were Britishers in 17th and 18th century who picked up Hindi words and spoke atleast in a rudimentary version of it with Indians in those days..
Well said
As An Arab i really liked this movie and its one of the best in history of movies
Me too,as an Arabic😁
Habibi 😎
Man amir made such good way to reply to the anchor
Ironic that people (specially from India) praises an American who criticises racism and slavery on an international level act clueless for the problems like these, but don't you think that the main problem is more about the fact that such things exists rather than the fact that someone is criticizing these problems. I mean if someone can't handle the criticism then they must be capable on the first place that we don't give them points to judge or criticise, yeah the movie was a little tilted in slope but we can't say that it was not true.
Watch his movie lagaan it delt with slavery, racism and cast system. Especially how so called untouchables are treated. He is creative person and speaking his views.
nice!
That the reason I watched the movie in hindi...!!!
Did you know the best part, I haven't seen this movie at all, and so no comments, so jai ho.
True
Wow actors speak English for an English language film. A film targeting an English speaking audience doesn't want to use subtitles for the whole thing
He said it 💯 let's me tell you guys I'm an Indian and I never liked Slumdog Millionaire and I don't know How this movie got an Oscar for best Picture. I believe it should have been "The curious case of Benjamin Button" .
Amir is: 💛
Slumdog millinaire is Hollywood movie that contains Indian region actors that’s it
❤️❤️Aamir,😘😘
i luvvvv amir khan best actor in bollywood
He is not purely Indian, great 👏,
#boycottbollywood #boycottlaalsinghchaddha
He is right on point too much right
Bollywood movies are nothing like broadway musicals.
I wish this misunderstanding can be cleared. Aamir should have corrected him.
Yeah I know Bollywood's a lot worse.
Perhaps this is the reason why we haven't really made it on international stage, especially the Academy Awards, the "Indianess" is missing, which is not with countries like Iran, China, Japan, etc of subcontinent.
perhaps it's because the great films constantly being churned out of bengali, malayalam, tamil and other regional industries are suppressed and thrown into oblivion by the bollywood people with money and power... Just consider the national awards: Vicky Kaushal over Mammootty, URI over Peranbu. What a joke
Slumdog was adapted as a screen play off of an Indian story written by an Indian author. The film was an English language film, so no duh, everyone is going to speak English.
I mean in the scenes from his childhood they only spoke hindi, I don't see the need for switching for the other half.
aamir Khan's wig is looking natural
What the fuc..he has real hair
@@SandeepMeena79 nope
@@oklik1122 give proof of wig
Hey how do u read your dialogues then??
"I'm not purely Indian in my outlook" but he didn't like that in a British film they spoke English and used British-Indian actors. Seeking 'indian purity' is a strange concept for a country that's as diverse as India. I suspect Khan, like many rich Indians didn't like the fact that Slumdog Millionaire highlighted the severe poverty found in Indian slums. His films show India as a modern, advanced country where everyone is either mega rich or middle-class. Maybe the movie didn't ring true for him because he doesn't know poor India.
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He didn't like it because it wasn't believable. India does have a large English-speaking population but the only ones who converse in English primarily before other languages is the urban middle class population, surely not slum kids or policemen. Had they been speaking in Hindi throughout the film like the little kids did in the beginning of the movie, it would've been more believable from an Indian standpoint. Obviously they were making a film for an international audience so the Indian perspective wasn't really a priority.
Aamir Khan has produced a film called Peepli Live which was set in rural India, and also hosted a show called Satyamev Jayate which talks about the everyday problems of the common man, so I don't think showcasing the poverty in India was as big a deal to him.
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exactly..!
You clearly know nothing about Aamir Khan. His movies have been highlighting India's poverty and social ills long before Slumdog Millionaire. He's played a slum-dweller in a number of movies. And his TV show Satyamev Jayate explores India's poverty and social ills with far greater depth and realism than Slumdog ever did.
Aao re baba...jhama jhama nacho re baba😀😀
Can someone please tell me the name of the author he says? 1:05
02:42 till end I'm strongly agree with amir.
Good answer Aamir!!