Slumdog Millionaire Work...

The Film "Slumdog Millionaire" does show the negative side of India, however it does show the side of India that people tend to ignore. The film goes on to show the poverty side to India "The Slums" which is often ignored by the media and not brought to people's attention. It shows the struggles that poor people go through on a day to day basis and how they get treated differently due to their level of class and where they come from. The director, Danny Boyle, doesn't mediate any of the shots that he has taken, he shows the realism and one aspect of India that isn't brought to peoples attention.

Danny Boyle breaks the stereotype of the people that live in "Slums" as they are seen as un-educated, through the main character Jamal. He breaks the stereotype as he portrays the main protagonist, Jamal, to be clever and smart and shows if you give people in their position a chance, then you could see the real side to them and see that they are just ordinary people like you and me.

Although, there is a particular part that, due to the stereotype given to people who live in slums, shows how people do not believe that poor people can do so well in life let alone a game show and are quickly judged by what they have and what they are seen as. For example, the character playing the host of the game gets the main protagonist arrested just for doing so well in the game. This shows that how people in these situations are so quickly judged just because of where they come from, how under privileged people don't get a chance and how they are represented and are judged through the stereotype given and labelled to them.

However, the film does tend to show India in a negative light. It shows India as a corrupted and poor country and doesn't show all areas and aspects of India. It doesn't show how wealthy India is and how it has changed economically over the years. Also, as well as the director creating and showing the realism of India in some parts, the country does tend to be shown through a biased opinion of what the director had seen and only shows us his opinion. So in some ways it shows the realism created but also we do see a biased opinion and side to the film.

What British Asians thought about the film:
"It was just really refreshing to see an uplifting film that had a good love story and featured Indian actors, but wasn't Bollywood. I wonder what other people will make of the depiction of Mumbai though,"

"Boyle could've made a really gritty film, where there is no light at the end of the tunnel, where it's all despair. But he chose to give it a happy ending, and not once is he patronising with his material"

"It highlights that there's more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood, but I thought it was a bit clichéd in parts, which the book isn't. Some turns of the narrative and styles of shots seemed familiar, like they'd been nicked from other Indian independent films and Indian 1970s cinema. It is significant, however, that it takes an English director to make this type of film mainstream."