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Slumdog in India
Slumdog Millionaire has earned raves just about everywhere except for the country where it takes place, where it has not yet opened. The film premieres in India on January 23 and has been generating a lot of buzz, according to USA Today, since it won four Golden Globes on Sunday. It's difficult to tell how the film will be received, especially since it has not yet been cleared by India's censors, which have butchered previous Oscar bait like Brokeback Mountain, which became in India a story about friends on a camping trip. No matter what the final outcome, it seems unlikely that the film will be shown in the same slums where it is set, where the theaters are tiny, illegal, and usually show films from VHS or DVD.
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I wonder what Indians are going to think about how their police system was portrayed. I thought it was a bit over the top.
I'm sorry but that tidbit about Brokeback Mountain's censored recut just dominated the story for me. How boring would that film be? "Gosh, those guys are such good friends! I don't know why his wife is so uptight though! I wish I could quit you, Harish!"
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