Ten-year-old Slumdog Millionaire star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was physically disciplined by his father in full view of a crowd in Mumbai, drawing an outcry from Read the full post.
Feb 27
2009
09:22 PM ET
Treatment of 'Slumdog Millionaire' child actor draws criticism
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What is the first answer that you think of after you see Slumdog:
a)Bobby Jinkel, 2)a red dot, 3)Apu or
d)child abuse.
Otis wrote:
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Why, Otis, WHY should something that is so clearly WRONG be respected? What is wrong with you? Hey, segregation used to be acceptable in the US. Do you think it should have been respected because it was a part of our culture? Do you think slavery should be respected because it is a part of many cultures? Take a stand — don’t be afraid to say when something is wrong.
Rahul, are you serious? Many people kick their sons, and do a lot worse. It’s sadly easy to believe this happen. You need to get out of denial and look the ugly truth in the face. Kids are abused horribly every day and people like you, people who deny anything like that could ever happen, are part of the problem. Do a little research on child abuse and stop sticking your head in the sand, pretending it doesn’t happen.
Rahul, are you serious? Many people kick their sons, and do a lot worse. It’s sadly easy to believe this happen. You need to get out of denial and look the ugly truth in the face. Kids are abused horribly every day and people like you, people who deny anything like that could ever happen, are part of the problem. Do a little research on child abuse and stop sticking your head in the sand, pretending it doesn’t happen.
Let the stink that emanates from the hovels occupied by hundreds millions of impoverished, ill-treated and illiterate Indians (and Chinese and Africans, and Latinos) rise and fill the air with a stench that may not a single person in the Northern climes of this godforsaken and humanity-ridden planets of our, be able to sleep another night of false dreams and live another day of fake hopes.
What was that about Mumbai … Maximum City. How about maximum shitty Mumbai? A city terrorised by Hindu fascists. (And I am a Hindu … although of the strictly agnostic kind.) … a city, which is half skyscrapers and half slum … aka Rio De Janeiro on the shores of Arabian Sea. A war terrain between lumpen elements insighted on one side by lumpen extra constitutional powers like Bal Thakre’s Shiv Sena and on the other hands stoked by criminals like Dawood Ibrahim in the UAE / Karachi, Pakistan. Well, how proud should Mumbaikars be! When Mr. Amitabh Bachchan roars at the “underbelly in developed societies.” Danny Boyle, you should have made a movie out of Suketu Mehta’s, Bombay, Maximum City. Call it … The Way of the Slumdogs, or The Slumdog Days, or Every Slum has its Dogs … better … WHO LET THE SLUMDOGS OUT!
Bottomline: INDIA SUCKS. AND I WISH IT THE VERY BEST. ALL THAT SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS … YOU CAN AFFORD IT WHEN YOU SPEND RS 1000 AT PIZZA HUT IN JUHU. Crying shame.
Looks like daddy’s getting a lot of pressure from the press. I wonder if he isn’t getting equal pressure from the Bollywood “players” (oops, was that a bad word?), as well. That would probably explain the reason why he slapped and kicked his kid in public – out of desperation and/or fear. Of course, this would be my speculation and no one else’s. I’m also not trivializing the father’s actions as acceptable. It’s just that money IS the root of all evil and in India, the movie industry is/was where alot of the money comes from.
I am not Indian, but was born in England. Many of you comment on education on the way or life in India. Personally, I do agree with you, but please don’t assume that people don’t care. Now living in the US, I do agree there aren’t the type of documentaries I would like to see the average American exposed to as we are in England. I do however make an effort to rent videos which depict life in India, eg one that showed the lives of indian children growing up near a brothel but who were given cameras to go around and take pictures. The life of some of those children were changed by that experience. I think more effort by local tv stations to show documentaries on the lives of other people around the world, and the hardships they are experiencing. Educating the people makes a difference. Food for the children etc are necessary, but it it important to just give people an insight into the lives of others just to educate, and not always make them think it’s all about the money. If we can make people CARE the money will come.
The boy should be able to rest up after such a long flight and he needed to be private to rest.Hitting him after so much good will was coming to India is just not on.What is the Indian media doing to find out about the new flats that were promised to those two children by the Indian government? Was that all talk and hot air? And Danny Boyle? Wheres the flats and I honestly think that both offers should be made to come forward by the media and both offers need to be supervised so the families live in them to benefit properly.Rubina was the cutest kid and I believe the government of India and Danny Boyle can do better for them.The Indian govt seems to be asleep where child abuse and gross slum poverty is concerned.Yet they find money for weapons and rockets .