Slumdog Millionaire depicts real life

As a South African, I find the Indian movies enjoyable,the stories profound, screen writing amazing but I usually skip the long dancing and singing routines because I find them, while too long..  My thoughts on future Indian movies that will make the grade in terms of Oscar material would mean"less dancing" and more "acting", the reason why I say this is the criteria that Western audiences judges a movie's success is not based on the "dancing parts but on the acting parts". If you have good actors and actresses an a fantastic storyline your movie will be a success.  The question is does Indian movies want to go "BIG" in the States as the judgement criteria will be far different namely "high class acting" not dancing.

its so late to comment still i would like to add one important thing that slumdog millionnaire was a satirical film which penetrated to every citizen and became a wakeup call. And Amitabh and his family should realise that films like Kabhi khushi kabhi gham is far away from 90% of indians as you are...overrated super heroes.

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The reality of Slumdog Millionare:

1. Free education for the kids.
2. Maharashtra Govt. to provide housing for 2 of the kids.
3. The Congress party to use the kids in their election campaign. 

"Amrit  ki  varsha  hogee,
Har  manav  ur  ambar se,
Prem sudha karuna barsenge,
Dharti  ke  kan-kan  se,
Jeevan van ke saghan kunj me,
Chetan    deep    jalenga,
Har sukhee dali par sathee,
Sunder   phool   khilega."

This will happen for a lucky and privilaged few. For the brimming millions things will remain more or less the same. 

Yes, this  film  made a  history. I want to add that the time has come when we have to do some ground work for the betterment of the people who did not get equal opportunities till date. 

Amrit  ki  varsha  hogee,
Har  manav  ur  ambar se,
Prem sudha karuna barsenge,
Dharti  ke  kan-kan  se,
Jeevan van ke saghan kunj me,
Chetan    deep    jalenga,
Har sukhee dali par sathee,
Sunder   phool   khilega.

Even if Slumdog Millionaire does not depict a real life, eight Oscar awards simply mean that the film MANAGED to animate and enliven a fictitious story.