After a friend recommended me to read this book, I read Accidental Apprentice by Vikas Swarup. I liked the writing style, its good. I will probably read his Q&A now just to check out his writing.
I didn't like the movie Slumdog millionaire not because it was made by a foreigner as author puts it in this book or because I can't face the reality as many said then. I didn't like it because I have seen 1000s of rags to riches Indian movies, this was nothing new!
Cmon we have moved from such stories to alien challenging godmen now! We don't need another rags to riches movie that too made by a foreigner with all Indian(origin) actors and music director. If it was just a documentary about Dharavi then we would have probably banned it. But Danny Boyle was intelligent that way and roped in AR Rahman and made sure there are song and dance numbers so we keep quiet and let it reach oscars(in India it won't even reach filmfare ?!) . Something to learn Leslee Udwin?
Coming to the novel, author is thoroughly inspired by Bollywood movies and Indian TV news channels! Current affairs made into tests, nice idea! There is no points for guessing who Nirmala Ben is, Priya cappoor is or for that matter Salim Ilyasi is! As I said good writing style. But if Danny Boyle or anyone else decides to make a movie, I still wouldn't like it! Because I don't want to watch another movie(haven't I watched 100s of them already?) where heroine has all the sorrow in the world! It doesn't matter if it happens in reality, I would personally prefer watching Chetan Bhagat's 2 states made into a movie by Abhishek Verman than this one probably.
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