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Who Does that? SlumDog Millionaire Saga Continues
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by rogernair | April 22, 2009 at 07:32 pm
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A newspaper (Tabloid is more appropriate) — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Picture- thinks of doing a remarkable stint operation and puts it into play and the rest is history.Rubina's poor ( in every sense of the word) father who has never seen two square meals a day ,before the little adorable child actress got just enough to eat for a few months for acting in the mega block buster oscar winning film, Slumdog Millionaire which grossed 300 million worldwide.
He was approached and lured into a fancy hotel by someone pretending to be a shiekh and offered $400,000 for putting her up for adoption. This to a man who probably believes that he can never give his daughter the life that the person looking to adopt promised him.
Its a disgusting ploy of a western mindset that Danny Boyle was trying to show in the first place in his film slumdog.Danny actually said while he was here in Toronto that we have to see this film with the Indian eyes and not the western glasses, , what irony!!!
What us (organ harvesting from the third world promoter) "westerners" are makin fun of, is probably a plot of a very emotional and successful Indian film.--Father gives up daughter as the ultimate sacrifice so she can have a better life because he knows he can never give her that life ..and cries at all the major events of her life by watching her from a distance..Wait a minute thats been done in a lot of Indian films.I am getting carried away aren't I.
Still, This is nothing different than and no better than the Dutch buying Manhatten from the natives for 60 guilders (=1000 USD) story where they bought the borough from natives (BTW those natives didn't even own the land and had no right to sell it in any event, but that doesnt stop the colonizers from claiming it from the rightful owners anyway, but thats another story.) .
The British tabloid newspaper — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures — said the father was demanding millions of rupees for the girl.
How convenient; I bet my last penny that the girls father( no clean chit to him either, untill I know a little more) didn't call this tabaloid or a sheikh that he wants money to "sell"or for putting his daughter for adoption to either of these jokers .Its the tabaloid guys who thought how much FUN it would be to dangle some fake piece of fruit infront of a starving man and watch him run after it and Laugh out loud when he finds out its not edible.
I have two words for this scheming jouranalist and his masters:
You guessed 'em they are ..............
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Disgusting Disgusting!!!
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at 19:40 on April 22nd, 2009
Can you add an opinion flag to this? You can do that in the edit field by checking the box. Thanks!
at 20:09 on April 22nd, 2009
A very nice opinion indeed, I am fully with you on this. What gives this journalist the right to go and perpertrate such a thing." How dare he " as the famous director of Elizabeth put it in his press release today
Shekar kapur's comments
at 20:31 on April 22nd, 2009
Absolutely true , this is like thowing a buck on the ground for a begger who is starving to death and then kicking him in the groin when he goes to pick it up and call him a thief. A truely colonial mentality and modus operanda.
Good on you guys to call a spade a spade.
at 20:56 on April 22nd, 2009
There are always many ways of looking at an issue and this is a pretty different I must say! Though the truth will never come out and we will have to live the versions that Media throws up!
In this case we are walking the thin line between a STING and ENTRAPMENT!
at 20:59 on April 22nd, 2009
Welcome to the real Papparazzi, the ones who create and then report on their own 'news'.
at 22:13 on April 22nd, 2009
well thats the infamous spin we talk about.. you never know which way its gonna go, I guess it went the wrong way for the journalist ( can we really call him that? ).O what a terrible web we weave when we first try to decieve
at 22:31 on April 22nd, 2009
Barrie I think you are wrong on this one may be just a little bit...may be a bit too opinianated ;) Backing a tabloid that quick is never a good idea they just dont report news they make it up to sell copies!!remember the story of Michael Jackson is an alien lol.
Here is Elizabeth's maker's take on this story
MUMBAI: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has condemned the recent sting operation done by British tabloid on Slumdog Millionaire child artist Rubina's father.
Kapur writes on his blog, "I just worked with Rubina, the little girl from Slumdog Millionaire - and what a joy she was to work with. Happy and full of laughter, her smile would light up smiles for the whole crew, as she no doubt did for the whole world in Slumdog Millionaire."
"I had been reading about what was going on with her father's alleged attempts to 'sell' her. I was aghast though at the sting operation done by that British Tabloid, which instead of being condemned worldwide is being heralded as a great piece of journalism," he wrote.
Kapur opines that not a single thought was given to the trauma that the little girl would go through with worldwide publicity that her own father was trying to sell her.
He questions, "What was the tabloid trying to do? Trying to push a father to name a price for his daughter's adoption? To go to a poor man in a slum who has spent his life not knowing where the next meal is going to come from, and then dangle a few hundred thousand pounds in front of him to entice and entangle him into a negotiation for the adoption of his daughter? By enticing him to say those words that would make headlines all over the world? How dare they judge and manipulate other people and their moral predicaments from their comfortable colonial point of view. I would rather have them arrested for obscene suggestions and offers than the father for coming to the negotiating table.
source:Businessofcinema.com
at 22:33 on April 22nd, 2009
oops I posted on the wrong one this one was for Barrie Artiste who was too quick to back the tabloid.
at 00:38 on April 23rd, 2009
Good opinion.
at 09:18 on April 24th, 2009
Yes, I don't like this sort of manipulation (entrapment, even) either but at the end of the day, the story is that the father was willing to sell his daughter. His own daughter. Into what? Forced marriage? Sexual slavery? Did it matter to him? That's the main message for me.
at 15:37 on April 25th, 2009
I am sorry general but u got it all wrong, the message is a guy approaches a father who cant afford to eat or feed his kids and offers him food and a very good life for the daughter ADOPTION, u r exeggerating what was said there, He didnt speak english and still didnt accept the offer.he said he will think about it and left. If he was of violent nature he could have punched the guy.but in a country like India being poor is being intimidated.This guy has never set foot in a five star hotel before.
He was intimidated and left .the fault lies in people who targeted him because he is a poor man with a poor daughter who just made some international fame..Kapeesh!!