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Old 02-15-09, 03:15 PM   #1
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The 'slumdog' was not entitled to be a 'millionaire'. Call it his destiny or an oversight by the Oscar-front runner team protagonist Jamal is shown winning Rs 2,50,000 in the film despite giving a wrong answer.


"Slumdog Millionaire" is based on Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup's novel "Q and A" and was adapted into the movie by scriptwriter Simon Beaufoy, who changed some parts of the story to make it fit in the film's narrative.

The result of it is that Jamal ends up giving a wrong answer to a question with wrong options.

Swarup's book refers to "Ankhiya Hari Darshan Ki Pyasi" as the song by saint-poet Surdas. The question for the protagonist in the book is a different one.

The song, "Darshan Do Ghanshyam Nath Mori Ankhiya Pyasi", that features in the movie, is from 1957 film "Narsi Bhagat" which was directed by Devendra Goel.

The film was based on the life of 15th Century Gujarati saint-poet Narsinh Mehta, who was a devotee of Lord Krishna.

The song, based on one of the oldest ragas — "Rag Kedar", was written by eminent Hindi poet and Bollywood song writer Gopal Singh Nepali.

However, some people believe that it was originally written by Narsi which was later translated by Nepali.

Surdas, a contemporary to Narsi, wrote "Ankhiya Hari Darshan Ki Pyasi" which expresses a similar sentiment.

In the movie Jamal is asked to name the poet who wrote song "Darshan Do Ghanshyam Nath Mori Ankhiya Pyasi" during the show- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? He has four options from the show host- Surdas, Tulsidas, Meerabai and Kabir.

Obviously, none of these is the right answer. The producers of the film were unavailable for comment.
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so what.
its just one more addition to a list of famous goof-ups in hollywood/bollywood.
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Old 02-15-09, 05:21 PM   #4
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hmmm ... interesting info indeed ... but i dont think any normal viewer would have noticed it ... but a very big goof-up indeed ...

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In hindi movies, we have had so many movies with so many flaws & there are also movies with no logic at all.When compared to those...this wrong answer is very small. Whether the answer was right or wrong...it doesn't makes a big difference to me.
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lol this is a nice find man !!

But hey even movies like LOTR had a few minor goof ups(but this is a big one!).
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So what that does not depend to any thing to get nomination in Oscar after. Boyle show us the India what he like most please consider this Englishman's 'dedication' to the poor people answer is right or wrong that does not matter to any body. US & UK people just enjoy such movie that's all.At least few people are considering this movie as a 'realistic movie' so i can hope we will find more millionaire from slum India within few year.
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In spite of giving wrong answer, he had become a millionaire - Its destiny...It was written in his fate....Simple yaar...
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coming soon - Slumdog Millionare 2. they take back the money
because of the wrong answer and he ends up back in the slum ;-)

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coming soon - Slumdog Millionare 2. they take back the money
because of the wrong answer and he ends up back in the slum ;-)

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But after the Oscar event because this millionaire has specially created to get the Oscar.
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