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Mumbai based Freida Pinto is one of the few Indian models to start her film career with a Hollywood film.

If you have not heard about Slumdog Millionaire then you must have missed all the buzz and the word of mouth publicity the film has got over the past few weeks.

I watched it the other night and I did cry a lot, the movie is at its heart, about aspiration, and about dreams coming true.

This ‘common man' Jamal, is not angry, like the Indian men of the 1970s. He is both hopeful and relentless, defiant and proud of his origins even as the people around him call him a 'slumdog'. He knows better - that it doesn't matter where you come from, only where you are headed.

 

Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards® were announced last Tuesday morning by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-winning actor and Academy member Forest Whitaker. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button led the pack with 13 nominations, followed by Slumdog Millionaire with 10, and both The Dark Knight and Milk got eight.

 

It seems like most of the criticism comes from people who haven't seen the movie. I've talked to several people who got up and left after the first few minutes because they weren't expecting the violence and squalor from the way the movie was advertised and didn't want to see such horrible stuff about their our beloved Mumbai.

Go see Paul Blart then if you want to keep living in a fantasy world. Slumdog Millionaire” has it all, and I am sorely tempted to give it a 10/10 .