<p>no I didnt say India was perfect, i kinda thought it was offensive, because I am indian myself and i have seen many times in movies, India getting portrayed as a poor country, even though it’s a growing country.</p>
<p>^First of all, it never claimed to portray ever aspect of India. Second, the point of the movie isn’t even the portrayal of India. Third, are there not many poor parts in India? And same with any other country, so it’s fine. I’m not sure what you wanted–it’s not a documentary on India’s growth. So any negative (re: viewed as poor) portrayal is bad? If anything, it brought light to the situation that many people never have seen…that is maybe the “worst” thing to come of this portrayal.</p>
<p>Yeah, the point of the movie was to show how a person who grew up DIRT POOR, managed to win a crapload of rupees on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.</p>
<p>^I am going to assume this is sarcasm.</p>
<p>that chick was hot. way out of his league, true.</p>
<p>^She is very attractive.</p>
<p>Ok, maybe this time I want to be funny and not being offensive here. I am trying to solve John’s persistent problem he has about Indian not having its own classification or misunderstood for American Indian. I know y’all here will agree that Indian and I mean Indian from Asian is pretty good at computer and the internet thingy. So why not classify the Asian Indian as dot Indian or dot Asian. I understand most Indian has dot on their head for religious reason. From now onward lets recognize Asian Indian as .indian or .asian. Let vote shall we.</p>
<p>^^^^How is that sarcasm, that’s basically what happened aside from falling in love with that girl. He was accused of cheating because the network and police didn’t believe he knew things that even rich, well-socialized people can’t answer. It showed how he knew the answer to every question through struggle and hardship.
^Stop ■■■■■■■■ *******. -.-</p>
<p>^Because that’s a simplistic summary of the plot. The movie is more than that…</p>
<p>It’s like saying Casablanca is about two people going to a bar and attempting to escape the country.</p>
<p>Ok, but it’s the bare essential of the movie. It gets the point across. I’m not going to describe every scene. Plus, we’re talking about what funnypunjabi was offended by when referring to the movie. That was the poor aspect… :</p>
<p>^That’s not what I mean…you made it seem like it was the “message” of the movie. That is a one-sentence version of the plot, yes, I agree.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t get that offended thing.</p>
<p>@andrewexd Frieda Pinto is pretty average by Indian standards :|</p>
<p>^ No</p>
<p>Slumdog Millionaire was a good movie with a good message, although it may not be definable, it is still understood as something along the lines of:
The things which shape us in our life can affect us in ways we do not and sometimes, cannot understand. </p>
<p>Anyways, going back to the Indians as Asians or not thing, does it really matter? Only the ignorant will think of Oriental-featured people if they think of Asian, but I find that ignorance is bliss for some. For others, just understand that those who are well-educated and literate to a certain degree, can and will understand the difference between yet unity of Indians and Orientals.</p>
<p>^^^lol, not really…</p>
<p>& i, personally, thought that the movie was way over-rated. it’s funny…we live in a town with lots of indians & a lot of my friends are indian & we were talking one day, & one of my friends says, ‘my mom didn’t even like SM…i feel like white people are way more in to that movie than [us] brown people…’, & then my other indian friend agreed, lmao.</p>
<p>It’s probably because they took unintended offense to it.</p>
<p>@thisgirlisaG: what are u talking about when you say, “lol, not really…”</p>
<p>and yeah indians took a lot of unneccessery offense from that movie. I would know. My parents did. xD</p>
<p>those 3 arrows are meant for the post that is 3 posts up [i.e. that the girl is ‘pretty average’ by indian standards] : P</p>
<p>“It’s probably because they took unintended offense to it.” yeah</p>
<p>Haha. My mom doesn’t like that movie either…neither do I. It was very flat. The only really authentic-looking scenes were 1) that slave driver guy burning the eyes of the boy and 2) the one guy trying to tell the Americans that the Taj Mahal was a five-star hotel. :rolleyes: I agree with its message, but I don’t think it’s put across in any way except for in the credits. </p>
<p>As long as we’re classifying people, yes, Indians are a subset of Asian. Unfortunately, there isn’t an automatic association we have between Asian and Indian. I still think all race questions should be answerable with a “decline to state.”</p>