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Aamir Khan offers his honest reaction to "Slumdog Millionaire"
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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
- Bollywood's biggest star Aamir Khan offers his honest reaction to "Slumdog Millionaire"
For the full interview watch George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight on Tuesday January 25th at 11:05PM on CBC Television or go to www.cbc.ca/stro...
I went to India in 2010, and NOBODY wanted to watch Slumdog Millionaire, it was seen as a total American Hollywood movie. But funny, in America people thought it was a Bollywood Indian movie.
Pretty sure it's a British production
No one in America thought that unless they were ignorant. I know nothing about Bollywood but even I knew it was a Western movie starring Indian actors
My parents are ignorant and were telling me that thats what India is really like. They even used the film as an example of why I should feel lucky to be born in America 😂😂😂😂 @realpoetics
@nickkurtz7763 you should feel lucky, usa has much better living conditions than india, our government does nothing to help it.
That's because most americans are illiterate who never bothered to look at anything beyond america.
Algorithm took me here after 10 year's lol
Better late than never
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@sohail7924 😅
13 as well! 😂
You didn’t arrive here after 13 years, the algorithm felt that this should be shown to you now because it is in the interest of the people who control the algorithm. That’s why it’s pushed to your screen now.
13 years later this got recommended 😂
Same here..no idea why
Same here, too. Maybe Slumdog Millionaire is releasing in some OTT platform, and this is a subtle advertisement.
@rinaldijames That could be a very good reason
Exactly. Aamir khan old videos like the one with rani & kareena where he talks about gender pay gap related to ability to fill theatres and this is getting recommended in my feed for the last 10-15 days.
I don't know why? 🤷🏻♂️
@SagarAbhishek Exactly even i have no idea why youtube is pushing those videos
This is so true. Just like the way Nigerians are depicted in most Hollywood movies... it doesn’t even come close to who we are and how how we do or say things here. They only base it on those in diaspora that they’ve met.
Nigerian cinema is I think 3rd biggest in the world
@soundwavesuperior6761 what the hell are you saying bro? It wasn't a racist colonial joke. It's a fact that British ruled over India for 190 years. It's a fact that India was a British colony till 1947. It's a fact that many Indians at that time spoke English in a slightly British accent. You can listen to political leader's English speeches. Stop getting offended and crying. There are tons of better ways you can spend your time
@soundwavesuperior6761 seems like you can't digest facts 😂😂😂
@soundwavesuperior6761
That African American quote is something a white dude wouldn't say on television stop lying.
@MrSkillz91 What are you even talking about? The Indian diaspora in the U.S. are literally the highest earners in that country, and generally live well-to-do lives, even by American / western standards. SIumdog Millionaire was based on western stereotypes of what white people in these so-called first world countries (U.S. / U.K. etc) believe what YOU people in India (a third-world country) typically live like. These stereotypes by the way, are confirmed when you have all of these RUclips video bloggers that specifically go to India and show all of the poor neighborhoods there (and none of the middle-class or wealthier areas).
I like the honesty when he said he doesn't represent India in purity.. he accepted his flaws and weaknesses
Not purely Indian doesn't mean flawed
@Seraphim737-l1i Yea totally agree...
And in that respect, nobody can be a pure representation of India...
We all have a multitude of influences around us, especially now in the digital age...
@Henry-b3j your shitty country is a joke
@QuantumtestGaming I live in Sweden.
@nb2381 what did Henry say exactly, he deleted it...
The fact is, india is so large and diverse in culture any indian can tell you "india is like this" and be 100% true but then the next indians statement completely contradicts the firsts statement and is also 100% true. Where my family is in india everyone told me NO ONE has English as a first language. But my indian friend living in aust said her first language was english. Some say india is a slum, others say india is developing. Some say india can never change from its thousands of years of traditions, others say they have changed so much. The fact is 1000s of languages, 10s of states 1000s of cultures. Slums are everywhere as are high rise buildings
can u help me find a film similar to slumdog millionaire? in terms of it's feeling of adventure
Ambi tion I saw it
People are unable to articulate their response embedding their personal experience as a reference, so they end up making general statements. Language problem.
Very well said
@JustinianG 3 idiots
I get what AK means.. Just imagine if the movie Parasite was made with English dialogues to please the Western audience.. It would have lost its essence... It was made for Korean Audience... It still got many academy Awards... Including the best Picture..
yeah thats true , unnecessary English from original actors was not a good idea,it should have been fully in hindi , then they could have released a dubbed version if they wanted , but maybe back then it was different , but now see even sacred games is being watched all over the world
Yes
Cuz the director was korean so he did it..but slumdog mill...british film for whole world not for only india..but sub title can be added...but british film,british producer..that was their choice...N ofcourse this movie should be in English..this is not bollywood film.. personally I enjoyed the movie..thats all
Exactly my point.
@suranjan2457 bhai tu chup reh
Dharavi is as much a reality for India as is The Marine Drive.
And thats what is his point, you can't represent dharavi alone as entire diversity of India. Ofc you can, but just that it doesn't really connects to us.
@gurujojo8992 marine drive is not a road,its an emotion
Visit the people sitting out there and you will know
@machimedicos many people donot connect with indian slums because its not their life
@techmania5957 that shitty place isnt even worth visiting. Theres nothing there....I got attacked by an actual cow there lol
Yeah but India is not full of dharavi dumbarse... Indians are so pathetic that They don't understand slums exist in Mexico, China, USA, Europe etc
Dharavi is not even the biggest Slum in the world...
People of India love to say well, it's reality we should face but that reality should be faced by everyone in the world who has slums...
Let's take Indian vs USA crime as examples, according to USA report itself, USA has more rapes than India per 100k but when you look into total numbers India will lead and that's because of population...
I love Chinese people who don't buy into these western standards... In Singapore Asia growth summit, Chinese said it best, America keeps dollar at center and determines what lower, middle and upper class is but that cannot be the standard of the world because in Asia you can have better quality of life for lower income but global standards will show that your below poverty and this is done so that westerners have sense of superiority..
Even if you have a house worth crores in India while having revenue to buy all premium products, quality food, service, hospital etc in the world, you'll be middle class in western standards..
Lagan actually deserved oscar
Aamir Khan, wow, so well-spoken in this interview! I was glued to whenever he spoke, what elegance and honesty with his answers
My foot
@kumarnarendra1873 fuck off buddy
Wow, he shares his point of view , So many friends of mine did not like parasite but I did .I did not like joker but many of my friends liked it .Amir khan was right about India being intolerent.
he is very hypocrite person
@oneway3184 So are you but do you see us complaining about it?
I think Lagaan deserved an Oscar more than slumdog millionaire did.also ar Rehman should have won an Oscar for Lagaan rather than for this movie.the music in Lagaan is just the best works of his entire career.
No it didn't Slumdog millionaire is a masterpiece
@ShadowOfNexxus Slumdog Millionaire is a fake, illogical movie made by obnoxious Britishers.. Lagaan was far more deserving
Totally agree after watching the making of lagaan documentry
They won't like that movie because then they have to face the atrocities they inflected upon us. Everyone is biased not only indians
Slumdog was not made by Indian
Yt is recommending it today after 10 years on his birthday : )
India is diffrent for everyone
He was in Lagann. That movie was AWESOME
That's why I can listen to Amir.
haha he did well at being diplomatic ... really apt answer. love it !!
The interviewer is like Russel Crowe in Beautiful mind..
Truly Agreed what he said
That was my thought too after watching the movie
2:34
Damn. That went smooth. No one noticed it
noticed what?
@RusselKabirTR That was a clever joke, I liked it anyway
I understood that reference 😂
Can you clarify. Noticed what?
@insearchofself. Colonial hangover 🙃
Why algorithm is recommending me this after 15 years?
Oscar is made only for western countries, there are many movie which is far better then hollywood oscar winner
If india could send a better film to oscar then india could get opportunity
But we sent the worst movie like gully boy
Les Grossman check the history of Bollywood specially old ones Bollywood have greater movies than Hollywood I never cried watching a Hollywood movie but in Indian movies they put soul in it and Bollywood have better love story movie titanic
Les Grossman That's simply not true. I have watched every single Oscar winner for Best Picture and with the exception of Parasite, I can name a better bollywood film from each year. India has made so many better films that get no recognition because you're all to busy judging us on our commercial films (that are also better than most hollywood commerical flicks but that's a different story).
That's an opinion, right. Judging films are in perception. Personally, there are some foreign films I thought were amazing and the Oscars ignored them. However, there are also years where I think the Oscars were right and foreign films were not as good. I have been moved by both English and Foreign Language films.
Also, if this was not clear, when I talk about foreign films Bollywood is included. I just might not appreciate it bc of how I was raised. Idk tho because alot of my favorite films are from a foreign language.
Every individual, culture, nation and comminutes like life are constantly evolving, therefore there is no such thing as pure anything.
0:06 whole india is transforming 😌🇮🇳🙏❤️
Is it becoming even MORE slummy? Because that's what most of the RUclips video bloggers who go there and post videos to make some quick money seem to be claiming. 🙄😌
i didn't know that THE danny boyle had directed this movie, i remember watching it when i was a kid, i didn't really watch a lot of indian movies cuz i didn't like em, but i remember i watched it completely idk why, idk if i even watched it on my own or someone made me watch it or something but yeah
Aamir just exudes honesty and authenticity
😂😂
He called it an nri movie and I have to agree 😂
I have known the lives of slum-dwellers of Mumbai from my childhood, though I myself didn't live in one. Being a Cotton green resident some of my classmates used to come from surrounding slums. Agreed some slums could be worst than Cottongreen, but what was shown in that movie was very unbelievable and demeaning.
Slumdog millionaire does not depict the life of every indian person. But yes, some people in India have done and still do, live lives like the ones portrayed
😂😂😂
goddamn so related to me i also grown up watching english movies and shows so same kind of influence I had
Absolutely agree one hundred percent. Most of these hollywood directors are unable to capture the essence of India.
I mean most Bollywood directors cant do it either. They have a romanticized fantastical version you 3 idiots is true to life in India.
Essence of India - drama queens, showing off and disorder !
The stereotypes and hypocrisies in 3 idiots is insane. I have left a comment in one of its videos, not sure if adding it here will help, let me know.
I didn't know that russell crowe did interview as well 😂
People made picture about India on the basis of that one movie.. India has a very vast diversity.. you go to south and you go to north.. you will find totally different types of people and culture and weather.. even if you just visit neighbouring states there is still vast differences in Infrastructure, weather,culture,people & everything. The vast diversity of India is what that makes it different from other countries.
@harsh s 😂
North or South all 70% of people are in poverty most them are buggers most of indians are slave of political parties and politicians shame bron this bugger country 😕
so do we all think America is made up of gangsters after watching godfather?
@harshs7198Nah bro we weren't talking about your home
15 years later
2:21
SO THATS WHY IN THUGS OF HINDHUSTAN WHITE BRITISH SOLDIERS SPOKE IN PERFECT HINDI
Strangely, this gets suggested after 14 years
watching this now, it feels amazing how priyanka chopra's the white tiger clicks correctly to me as an indian and how amazing it is to me again as an american
Why was i recommended this video 13 years later? How RUclips algorithm works is a mystery to me. Nevertheless, I am glad it did.
Like once Ned said, Everything before the word 'But' is horseshit. :D
He didn't use 'but'... 😎
I see.... but.... winter is coming
Amir Khan replied brilliantly on the Slumdog Millionaire.
Very diplomatic ,very correct. Just like always.
Hello is truly a gentleman.
i thought he didnt do interview's?...
You should be proudly say i am an Indian 🇮🇳 , this is the country and peoples because of them you are sitting in that interview and enjoying stardom .
English is just a language it doesn't make you less indian.
Thanks Amir sir ....India is shown NEGETIVE to win awards ....I feel like HOLLYWOOD lobby already decided to give award BEFORE SHOOTING only
77% of Indians lived in poverty in the early 1990s, which is when the boys grew up. This story is entirely plausible and there are people who have lived, and still are living, worse lives in India than the boys
@fin-ed6oj none of the people are living like this, you wouldn't surely like this but it's true😁
@ChandanMishra-ql1bi in 2023, there are 30 million orphaned children in India. Also, 71 million Indians currently live in absolute poverty. So why don’t you sit down, shut the fuck up, and read a book
@ChandanMishra-ql1bilol,as an indian u r 💯 wrong, I've seen people who even live in worse condition.
Firstly loved the fact that he doesn't change his accent
I also could relate that I became unaware of many regional writers and knowledge about the region I'm from in India as my reading became restricted mostly in English language after a particular time point since my college days. As a kid I used to read many periodicals designed for children in my mother tongue. It's true that I gained a lot by reading in English of books from several different times and regions. But now I would like to also go back and enjoy reading some historical fictions of regional writers.
Loved how he stood by his his understanding of our India.
Police speaking English is far fetch but whole villages randomly bursting into song and synchronised dance every now and then oh ye that happens in India all the time hahaha
Trust me it does happen, its part of our culture that's how it is reflected in movies.
abhijeet vaidya Stop lying, I was born in India too, synchronized dance numbers among general public on the streets never ever happen out of the blue LMAO
@wander_plug1369 have you ever atttended garbha or ganpati visarjan
abhijeet vaidya Yes I have, I’ve even attended them here in the states, but the difference is that they are organized just like a high school prom. Bollywood movies project as if the people on the streets minding their own business join the actors in a dance extravaganza out of nowhere with an invisible band playing music somewhere in the forbidden dimension lol, that to me that is much more unrealistic than cops speaking english
moin akhtar agreed also hollywood has unrealistic action but in Bollywood goes WAAAAAAAY over the top, even the rickshaw wallahs r black belts who can do 10 ft high flying kicks
THATS ENTERTAINMENT BABY
How many films r there where aliens come from outta space and speck perfect English . In cinema the rules
Can be broken and amir khan should know that
rightly said by aamir!
He said it so well, that Indians that are in ubran or suburban area are going to English medium school, our childhood has been spent reading English authors, watching Harry Potter etc, so many are actually not that Indian as they might look, although some kids that can't even speak hindi because their parents are English obsessed kinda seems shit to me because that shows their slave mentality that they have but there is a lot of diversification in the Indian youth
Danny used the slum concept to show mumbai slum habitats to the world and added emotions to the characters (which simply and ideally does not exist in slums, the way he has shown in the movie) and addled the emotion quotient in the brains of the rich and the award wagon industry and showcased his mastery in this kind if an art and win accolades and award for his work.. But what do the slums and its children get out of it? What do, the government and administration, of it?
Nothing. Thats the point. Show poverty in india make money . No movie on how british stole 2 trillion dollars from india.
10 year and indian cinema didnt change at all .
I would have loved to be in the audience!
I love how he told about indian children speaking heavy British accent but then also did thugs of hindustan ...just kidding he is My fav
By reading the comments, why people here are getting anxious? He was just stating his opinion.. We perceive things in different ways so why full of butthurt.
Common for Indians to get butthurt
@SomnathBhattacharjeewwe wow and you are what?
Common for humans to get butthurt *
@Ar-ok1rg Since I haven't been to many places or seen that many faces can't put humans up there in place of an Indian because they're an ideal candidate to perceive offense in all walks of life and I'm Indian too haha see the irony here?! Lol
@SomnathBhattacharjeewwe Dude trust me, it's common for everyone to get butt hurt these days, just look at Twitter.
@Ar-ok1rg
I'm an alien. So I'm safe from this disease. ✌
In one word. HONEST.
It was just a 'hit job' on India by the West like always...
How?
That the reason I watched the movie in hindi...!!!
@Theaikro Continued.
I think what the directors and the cast was thinking during the making, was that to tell a story about life. Not a PR movie for the poor people in India. There are plenty of Indian-made movies that have poor vs rich issues, but I haven't seen them to create such a buzz. It is not like it was a secret in the first place. India has world biggest middle class, world biggest % of high educated women per capita. And ofc world biggest lower class and poor families.
Slumdog millinaire is Hollywood movie that contains Indian region actors that’s it
Seriously though, I as an american, never was arrogant enough to assume it spoke for India because I've never been there and I know that hollywood misinterprets almost everything it represents. However, who cares where it takes place? It's a story. It's a beautiful story and I adore the film and my love for it has nothing to do with where it takes place, or if it does it is just a tiny fraction of the film's appeal.
Kitura the thing is slumdog millionare was a good represantation of india. Khan is in denial because he was born rich. He doesnt know the struggle
@VLA1234-t2t Well most Americans are racists is also true but they are not going to accept it. Since it makes them uncomfortable.
@harir6316 cope
We should make a film on american supremacists amd give it oscar. Plz dont get triggered oka
@harir6316 Yeah, that's why every brown person on earth is dying to come to America, so they can get shit on by all the racists, right? So they can work hard and never build their wealth and never have any friends or own businesses or enjoy life. Right? That's why America is 100% made of white people and all the non-white people just run screaming to brown countries. Do you even know what the word racist means?
Given he gave that reaction 14years back, today's India would give very direct and critical reaction.
That's what I say when people ask me about SDM. I can understand why people love it that much who do not have a reference point. :-)
I'm Vietnamese and honestly the movie seems exactly like Hanoi in my childhood. How dirty and cramped it is where I used to live, but as a child it was benign to me.
A rare, brilliant, speculative, honest and unique judgement from a freelance judge. Clear and straight heart towards truth. The silent observer, absorber, preserver and reserver. Thank you.
I appreciate the honesty
I am disappointed that he didn't care to call out the stereotypes of that film about India and Indian's. I watched it and I hated it.
That kid could have played CA lottery and become a slumdog billionaire according to that movie, the amount of luck he had to have every question associated with his life he probably could all those important numbers from his child birth and bought a ticket.
Let's admit, his answers weren't apt for more than a majority, the first 'genre change' question & the culture answer he gave were in no connection
Aao re baba...jhama jhama nacho re baba😀😀
It was actually a good observation when we talk abt details. A slam boy speaking English in a brit accent makes no sense.
Absolutely
Aamir mamu is my favorite Khan.
nice!
Damn i feel same
but a guy dodging hundreds of bullets and fighting off hoardes and then breaking into song and dance and riding off into the sunset with the heroine is the real essence of india he connects with.ITS A FILM!
He didn't say that either, nor you will find him doing such movies, at least in the recent times. Also, his point is still valid
Not in 2 decades lol
❤️❤️Aamir,😘😘
This movie made me cry, years soaked saturated in handkerchief.
Sometimes it's hard to have a speech without tears rolling down cheeks
This comment made me laugh, days passed with humour always in the air.
Sometimes its hard to not laugh without tears rolling down the cheeks
Poetry 💯
Aamir is an amazingly intelligent person. He puts forward his points with such clarity. No wonder he directed an absolute masterpiece like Taare Zameen Par. I think he should direct more movies.
I would also like to point out that India is not synonymous with slums. That's what I see some authors and film makers portraying about this country which is extremely negative
Most poor people who migrated can relate to the poverty, the rich are just embarassed by it. The poor needs films about them too. In indian films everyone is a millionaire for no reason.
Love Aamir! But how did he miss the British characters who were talking Hindi in Thugs of Hindustan 😂😂
It also doesn't sound right when an English Officer speaks in Hindi in Thugs of Hindostan😂😂
Fuck yeah😂
Or in the girl on the train. The police officers speak in Hindi when it’s set in London.
Nailed it
_Tum sala garib log hamare joote ke neeche rahega_
Nah I mean some English policemen spent their whole life or whole career in India so it’s believable for em to learn Hindi
i really like hisstrong view
Everyone in the subcontinent who gets an education for like 18 years will most likely be good in english. They might be shy speaking it in front of an audience but most of them can do that as the whole education system is basically in english.
He is right on point too much right
Very nicely explained by Aamir Khan. Slumdog Millionaire may be a good film (purely in cinema and entertainment terms) - but it is not a true representation or even a slice of life of India, from an actual Indian's perspective. By the way, Aamir Khan himself is one of those really intellectual and great Indian film actors - who was unfortunately not always fully understood by some sections of the Indian population.
He perfectly summarized how I felt about the film too. It was a work of fiction, well told visually, but not representative or maybe even derived from Indian culture.
This guest speaks well, he will go far in life
I can imagine being Indian and finding Slumdog irritating. I think it pissed off some people being a UK film and not Bollywood but being so successful. You can see he is struggling to criticise it. That's because it's not so far from the truth. I've been to India. Much of it is highly developed. Much isn't.
He criticised it because it wasn't believable. India does have a large English-speaking population but the only ones who converse in English primarily before other languages is the urban middle class population, surely not slum kids or policemen. Had they been speaking in Hindi throughout the film like the little kids did in the beginning of the movie, it would've been more believable from an Indian standpoint. Obviously they were making a film for an international audience so the Indian perspective wasn't really a priority.
It's like making a film set in Germany with an all-German cast but they're conversing in British-accented English. The rest of the world might find it believable because they've never been to Germany so they wouldn't know any different but to the regular German it just wouldn't make any sense.
Aamir Khan has produced a film called Peepli Live (which is really worth a watch if you have the time or interest) which was set in rural India, and also hosted a show called Satyamev Jayate which talks about the everyday problems of the common man, so I don't think showcasing the poverty in India was as big a deal to him.
wikichris he isn't struggling to criticize it, he's trying to be diplomatic with his words. Yes, Indians hate this film, but not because we are out of touch with reality, but because this film is no representative of any reality of any part of India. We are suckers for social justice movies, if it really depicted things as it is, we would've loved it
wikichris Actially it is irritating for different reasons. It looked fake when made by foreign filmmaker’s with characters from slums talking in English.
Jimmy Greer You have literally no idea about Indian cinema, people like Scorsese who understands cinema knows about it better. FYI people are inspired by our great filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Mira Nair, G. Aravindan to name some. But these legends are forgotten due to ignorant, arrogant nature of white people with the tyrant ideology of white supremism. Even Kurosawa said, "if you haven't seen the cinema of Satyajit ray than it's like you've never seen the sunrise." The real India is so vast and glorious that even we Indians can't understand the great nation of ours completely. And you think spending a month or two will make you enough intelligent so that you can comment on real India and Indians than you're living in an illusion. India's infinite charm and eternal variety with cultural heritage and historic achievements make it what it is today. India was not founded by someone like the USA was, India was just there with its variety, it's people.
You won't be surprised that because of British slumdog millionaire made on indian otherwise it would be made on Britishers.
Thank u n agreed
Slumdog Millionaire had English speaking police because it was made for the whole world to understand
not for our Hindi Indians
and the slum life was depicted very accurately
kids are taken from slums by Gangs and made to beg on the road for money, and in certain cases, these Slum Mafias also cut out a kid's arm or blind him so people will feel more sorry and give more money
and people do defecate out in the open in the slums
i am Indian, and i know what the slums are like, and what the life for poor people is like in India
and Slumdog Millionaire depicted India more accurately than any Bollywood Romantic Fantasy film,
and directors like Karan Johar, Rohit Shetty, Sajid and Farah Khan, and almost 90% of all Bollywood directors shoot their films out of India in a foreign country, and never depict India for what it truly is
so stop saying Slumdog Millionaire is not accurate
you haven't seen lion then, its from boyle, later on he realized this issue and corrected here. In this movie all the indian talk in their native tongue.
U idiot..english subtitles can also b added
Have you seen Narcos ?? Whole series in Spanish but it is made for American audience primarily.
@tejas2620 exactly. Good point. So is Dirilis Ertugrul only in Turkish but made for world audience
Lol Lagaan was far more accurate than SlumDog millionaire
Regarding the accent thing, Dev Patel was putting on a fairly strong Indian accent during the movie. It's very interesting that to Aamir Khan it sounded like a British accent.
lol. really, strong indian accent. i must have missed it.
I totally disagree with amir khan with both the points because in India most of population thinks in there mother tongue language which they speak at their home.. And it's definitely not english in most of the case and the second point which you are saying you haven't seen children of slum speaking in English...it's a movie which is dubbed in English you can find version also
But how the hell the questions of the show(where anil kapoor ask questions) was only related to Western countries
Amir Khan is talking about middleclass indians . He is talking from a rich perspective not from the poor.
@boshirahmed i am middle class and i dont speak english at least at home
@arpitpatra You speak to it your friends. Come on. You talk to your friends more than your family. Too many languages in India, english is a national language, so I guess you can talk to someone from any part of india who is college educated.
Absolutely true
I have to disagree with AK on this one. Outside of superficial things like the police and the slum urchin speaking in english and in a britsh accent, the first half of the movie was pretty authentic. For example, 1. Riots in India leaving many people devastated 2. The love for Amitabh 3. The cruelty with which everyone treats orphaned street children 4. Many charities sexually and physically abusing children 5. The mafia deliberately maiming children to make them beg 6. underage girls being sold to brothels. 7. street children figuring out how to survive on their own and eventually many joining gangs and becoming like the assholes who abused them in the first place 8. A heavy handed police always terrorizing you. It was all true. The only thing that wasn't true was the happy ending. That never happens for the poorest of the poorest.
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I didn't know this only happens in India. The Civilians entering the airport ,that shit bath,and that who wants to be a millionaire the host beating shit out of that guest was pretty over the top.
@hyena5313 The shit bath obviously never happens anywhere and was artistic license to describe the love for Amitabh, Rajini etc. The millionaire host and police harassing the guest also never happens anywhere in the world and was ridiculously over the top. Agreed that the aspects you mentioned were completely unrealistic and unnecessary to tell the story.
True
The film was made for global audience (so English) but the context was completely Indian
The movie was terrible
Is this the same guy who played the indian forrest gump??? I suggest yall look it up hahaha
i luvvvv amir khan best actor in bollywood
Well spoken 👏
Best think about aamir is that his intelligent overshadow his look
Ji yes that is also true
unfortunately he can't express his honest openion now, because he will then be called antinational....
Alakh Niranjan Bhakt alert
Alakh Niranjan that's not true most of the people which support current government think honest criticism is propoganda
Alakh Niranjan bjp does
@defdum27 that's quite similar to how whenever people say anything different from hating the right or remotely saying anything similar to what they might believe they are automatically called as "bhakts" and the believe that propaganda isn't a problem anywhere else except among the "bhakts"...
congrats. you've officially been part of a propaganda that only the right spreads false news and propagandas .
@bababistril by saying this even you are part of proponganda which belives only left spreads false news and propoganda then what is the difference between you and me
This. As always, this. Politely and tactfully said by the great Aamir Khan, but absolutely on point. The film was directed by WESTERNERS for WESTERNERS. Although I will say that typically the experiences of people who lived in the slums are nowhere near that of those who did NOT live in slums. And it’s often the case, sadly, that the slum population is a huge one which people fortunate enough not to have to live in them prefer to either ignore or “disappear” them…kind of like we do with the homeless in the West.