Bollywood song and dance, Boyle style
Posted online: Tuesday , September 09, 2008 at 23:25 hrs
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Bollywood could not have got a more effective promotional ‘video’ without
having to ask for it.
Slumdog Millionaire, a film produced by Hollywood’s Fox Searchlight and
directed and written by a famed British duo, has delivered a glorious punch on
behalf of the often-maligned Bollywood song-and-dance set piece.
Director Danny Boyle’s film unspools a Bollywood number on the end credits
which turns out to be the film’s selling point. With Gulzar’s lyrics and
Sukhwinder Singh’s vocals, the robust AR Rahman-composed song, Jai Ho, has the
young protagonists, British-Indian actor Dev Patel and first-timer Freida
Pinto, a chorus of dancers in tow, pulling off a rousing musical performance on
a railway platform and atop a train. More than half the audience at the film’s
first press and industry screening at the ongoing 33rd Toronto International
Film Festival sat transfixed long after the credits had begun to roll, which is
usually a signal for people to jump to their feet and head out of the hall.
Slumdog Millionaire, scripted by Simon Beaufoy of The Full Monty fame, is the
story of a poor, uneducated boy who hits the jackpot on a game show, mixes
elements of British realism and the conventions of a Bollywoodlove story.
Director of the Palm Springs International Film festival, Darryl McDonald,
summed it up best— “Isn’t the Bollywood number absolutely outstanding?”
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