Small b and the dog in the slum

Now why are all over-reacting to senior citizen Amitabh Bachchan’s blog on Slum Dog Millionaire beats me? That is exactly what Sarkar Raj wanted. Bachchan is a smart Alec , if you have not figured that out already. He picks up a topical subject, gives it a serpentine twist, then dresses it with some journalistic verbiage, and what you have is Bachchan’s blog. Since SDM is hot subject, certainly more than Drona or Rona Dhona or whatever, trust Mr Reid & Taylor to get pseudo-patriotic.

Does Mr Bachchan know that despite all the multiplex-mobile-mall story of India, almost 400 million of our beloved country go to sleep earning less than Rs 50 a day? You know what? Its time we stopped being fake nationalists—I love India, but I cannot pretend that we do not have problems, for heaven’s sake. We are hugely corrupt, we fight amongst ourselves like Ekta Kapoor serials ( at the time of writing, suddenly Mr Raj Thackeray has woken up and is now targeting UP New Year , it seems), we take short-cuts, we do not respect women enough, and our poverty challenge is far from overcome. And the list is long.

What Bachchan forgot was that Boyle captured India’s hard reality for sure, but that in the end, the little children of Dharavi slums also become the real heroes. For a man , who once did Laawaris, Bachchan should have identified with the characters, instead of appearing sarcastic and grumpy. Smile, Sir!

The real beneficiary of the blog-wog tamasha is a certain Mr A who owns Bigadda. Even if Bade Miyan’s movies may be flopping, he is giving big hits to bigadda.