Slumdog Millionaire

Amitabh Bachhan wrote in his Blog that Films like "Slumdog Millionaire" is bagging awards in western world because this film is depicting poverty in India. He did not spare even Satyajit Ray who was the master film maker of realistic meaningful cinema saying that Ray's popularity was on account of the fact that he showed India's poverty and hunger in his films. I don't agree with his view point. These types of allegations are often made by those who are somehow connected to commercial Hindi cinemas. I have seen most of films made by Mr Ray. His films like Charulata, Jalsaghar, Aranyer Din Ratri,Pratidwandi, Kapurush Mahapurush etc have different storylines and yet masterpieces. Former French President came to India personally and handed over the Prize to Ray for his film "Jalsaghar" which was adjudged as the best foreign Film in cannes film festival in France. Mind you, Ray used to make films with shoe string budget yet he produced classics. Ray has been given lifetime achievement oscar award for his contribution towards Indian Cinema. According to me only good films get accolades and awards at international level. Bollywood should improve standards of it's films rather than blaming western world for not appreciating films made by it. In terms of producing maximum number of films, Bollywood is rated as number one in the world but in terms of quality cinema, it lags far behind others. Bollywood films have improved technically over the last couple of years, but technical excellence is not enough to make a film outstanding, other departments of film making like script writing, Dialogues, Background Music, storyline, Screenplay,editing,Photography,Acting etc need to be synchronised and interwoven through good direction . My assessment of Bollywood films is only one out of 100 films released can be rated as really good. Neither Commercial success of the film at the box office nor any of the Filmfare awards in our country can qualify a film to be a good film. Taare Jamin Par of Aamir Khan was not even considered for nominations of oscar Awards leave aside winning it, although this film is far far superior to average Hindi films. Hindi filmgoers should see quality cinema to be able to differentiate between outstanding films and average and below average Hindi films churned out by Bollywood.