Comments on: For a million Slumdog Millionaires

By: bijan

bijan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:29:01 +0000

hi Nandan here is guy working in banking software(Zenith infotech ltd.) around very very rural area and having credit of huge number online of branches (uco,alb,coop ,gramin bank) wants to join prestigious uid projects if wants.I have strong believe in this project before many years and this can help india for a better tommorow.

By: Kshitij

Kshitij — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:02:03 +0000

Dear Nandan Sir,

You inspire me endlessly and I love the line - “…it doesn’t matter where you come from, only where you are headed.”
Its so true and very inspiring indeed.

Someday, like you, I too want to be famous, earn lots of money and above all work not just for India but Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa..in fact the whole world.

When your announcement came through the mail, it reminded me of a scene from the movie - ‘Asoka’ where the young Ashok , unaware of his future asks a Buddhist monk about it and the monk very calmly says that his life was that of a traveler who reaches his destination. I don’t know If I make sense or not but you finally working directly for the government of India reminded me of this piece.

All the very best.

May god bless you.

Regards,
Kshitij Choudhary

p.s. One simple request to you, could you please ensure that before you finished the project, you inducted at least 5 honorable and dignified persons into the government and asked them to carry it forward. It would help clean the scum at the very top and provide my generation with a new set of leaders who inspire.

By: Bhushan Patil

Bhushan Patil — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:52:07 +0000

“Congratulation” for your appontment as incharge of UIN Card project.

The project will help us to solve various problems in our system and which will hepl us to reduce our huge expenditure on security as well.

Looking forward for your graet and important role for our nation.

Best Luck.

By: Rajeev Singh

Rajeev Singh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:31:00 +0000

Congratulations SIr on becoming incharge of teh Uniqie ID Card project.. looking forward to you work wonders to people’slife like you have to Infosys shareholders life.

By: Arun Pennatore

Arun Pennatore — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:59:04 +0000

I just started reading Nandan Nelekhani’s book. I just want to add, over time UK saw huge chunks of their population migrating out for better prospects to USA, Australia, Canada, Africa & so on. If we add back those (decendents) who are now living outside UK, the pop density at a very min would be around 1500 people/sq- mile in UK. Likewise if we add up current population of India & include those are living outside, it is around 890/square mile. We can imagine how UK would have looked with that kind of a population had they not migrated out. It is easy now for someone from UK or USA to comment on India’s population issue.

By: Nehal

Nehal — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:18:05 +0000

Hello Sir,

I am myself IT Professional and more to be movie freak.I watched film closely and i really appericiate positiveness shown in concept as well as shown no greed to go after money. But i also want to make point that i seen such remarkable movie like taare zammen per, black (One of finest movie i see to date) why not won an oscar though concept and theme of flim seems to be very sound. so it force to make anyone’s mind about director country.

By: KillGod

KillGod — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:47:39 +0000

Film is not “celebration of creativity”…..it is just any other movie made with goody-goody feel on human relationship and Love prevails non-sense. It is just that it is made by a westerner and distributed by “Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures”…hence it made a global opening….

India is portrayed as a pathetic slum which west wanted to see as they do not want to tarnish the image which they comply with.

Rest stupidity of congress to take the credit is cheap and they should try to do something for country rather than taking a bath in the glory of some movie.

By: manish

manish — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:36:33 +0000

HAYAT HO KI AZAL, SABSE KAAM LE GAAFIL
KE MUQTSAR BHI HAI KAAR-E-JAHAN AUR DARAAJ BHI

whether it is nectar(hayat) or poison (azal) - take help from everything ( o man!)
B’coz woldly matters (kaar-e-jahan) involve issues which are of close proximity (muqtsar) as well as from far away (daraaj)

I can’t believe Danny Boyle ever read Firaq Gorakhpuri but there happens to be a great connection between the essential message of SDM and above ’sher’
Here is a charater Jamaal Mallik who gets all poison (countless adversities a boy in mumbai slum faces) and some nectar (love for Latika). And finally what a brilliant message comes out of a gripping storyline - it is not the circumstances that make difference but the handling of it.
3 cheers to the whole crew of SDM

By: KiranP

KiranP — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:52:57 +0000

First they plunder us and then they film our ruins….
Hats off to British ingenuity…..
What is with Indians and Dogs, looks like British cant complete their phrases without mentioning Indians along with Dogs. Some of the best reviews of this movie can be read at

http://satyameva-jayate.org/2009/01/22/on-slumdog-millionnaire-prejudices-guest-post-by-saurav-basu/

By: oshani perera

oshani perera — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:32:52 +0000

Chord strikers in the film are 1. The alliance with the Three Musketeers. No doubt Alexandre Dumas would have been proud to seek how far reaching and timeless his work has been. 2) The fact that Jamal Malik’s winning of the game show ‘was written’. Not all can be achieved by quiet resignation, determination and resilience. One also has to be lucky. Jamal Malik was but all those around him were not.