Life Changing Mindset

Those who have seen the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" - what thoughts come to mind when you see this picture?

I saw this on BBC News's Day in Pictures, for today:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47010000/jpg/_47010038_008478524-1.jpg

The caption reads: "Rubina Ali, star of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, sits in despair on the rubble of her damaged home after it was demolished by the civic authorities in Mumbai, India."

(Please STAR this question!)

Public Comments

1. I think It's sad :(

2. Well, yeah, not surprisingly she is sitting on rubble because the British film producers and directors used her. They used her for their film and put her right back where she came from. It's not her or her family's fault.
If they really were trying to send any messages out about poverty in India then maybe they would have taken her and her family out of the slums, given them a house, and given her a proper education. But, as always the British are users.

3. they showed India in a really bad way
it is not all like that
i hated it!!!

4. I refused to go and see it. I hate these rich feckers who exploit and profit fronm the poorest of the poor...and paint themselves as some kind of humanitarian saviours for doing so.

The profits from that film could have rehoused every child in the slums of Mumbai...and built them schools.

Running about to awards ceremonies, travelling first class and staying at $4,000 a night hotels with other luvvies and drama darlings..... and telling one another what great big hearts they have has not saved the life of a single poverty stricken child.

**spits in their direction**

I despair of the Western world, i really do. We are just so bloody arrogant.

5. I just read that the kids who starred in the movie only got about 800-2400 dollars for it.
That is just f*cked up when you look at the millions of dollars the movie made.

Another kid who was also in the movie(Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail) got his home knocked down by the government too. It makes me so sad to see that these kids have been used like objects and were tossed back into the slums after something this big that would have gotten so many people out of the slums.
******* greedy film producers.