Slumdog

 

THEY HAVE STARTED CALLING INDIANS "SLUMDOGS"

- Asdesh Srivastava

 

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/n/i/top_stories/2867

 

ARE YOU PROUD TO BE CALLED AN INDIAN "SLUMDOG"

 

It is a matter to rejoice ?

 

Bollywood composer Aadesh Srivastava says he is embarrassed to walk on the streets of the US after Oscar-nominated "Slumdog Millionaire" because "they have started calling Indian Slumdogs".  I am so upset.  They have started calling Indians "Slumdogs" just like "Coolie" was a "Slang" in Britain.  Now in the US I feel slumdog is a "Gaali" (Slang) for Indians.  Mumbai has given me everything, Srivastava told.

 

"To see the city being shown as a place of dirt, filth and crime only is very humiliating… What right does the director have to show Mumbai as a slum..?  Now we are considered a slum city in all parts of the world.  Humlog kahin mooh dikhane laayak nahin rahe (We're unable to show our face anywhere)".

 

Srivastava applauds fellow composer Rahman's music in the movie, but says he'd never be part of a film that makes India look like a slum.

 

I am so upset.  It's a disgusting movie.  Being an Indian it was doubly humiliating to be watching the film with Americans. Even if Steven Spielberg asked me to compose music for a film that makes fun of India, I won't do it," he said.

 

'WE APPLAUD PEOPLE WHO COME TO OUR CITY AND SPIT IN OUR FACES!' he said.