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    • Agencies Tags : slumdog millionaire, p chidambaram, slum inspiration, bank loans, slum kids Posted: Saturday , Jan 24, 2009 at 1156 hrs Chennai:
    Slumdog millionaire
    Chidamabaram cited the movie as an example to show that young kids from slums are not lagging behind corporate India.
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    'Slumdog Millionaire' has a fan in Home Minister P Chidambaram, who said on Saturday that its theme should inspire banks to provide loans to budding entrepreneurs from slums which are humming with business ideas.

    Chidamabaram cited the movie portraying the rags to riches story of a boy from Mumbai slum as an example to show that young boys and girls from slums are not lagging behind corporate India.

    "Please watch the movie after its release," he said speaking at the launch of the International Financial Corporation-Venture East-Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (an NGO)-sponsored fund to promote grassroots entrepreneurship in India.

    The movie has fetched the Golden Globe award for musician A R Rahman and won ten Oscar nominations.

    Recalling the success story of girl at a slum in Delhi who had set up a beauty saloon with a government loan, he said "today, most of the residents in that slum are her clients and she earns Rs 5000 a month"

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    "A slum like Dharavi in Mumbai is humming with business ideas and innovations and we have to reach to such people also," he said and exhorted government and private lending organisations to help such people.

    Besides, formal education was "not necessarily" the yardstick to measure success but was "a great boon and help," he said, citing the case of such people.

    "Lot of young men and women in slums have the necessary qualities of being innovative and are willing to take risk to carry out a business venture," he said.

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    pakistan exposed By: vishwanthan | 25-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Pakistan has put his shoe in his own mouth when Obama rejected fooling tricks with world pakis exposed to the world who it promote terrorisem in the world this the best time to India to bring all proof for the last 15 years it gather with great herdship it will be a moral booster to our agency also. time has come to cut pakis tails without any mearcy otherwise the whole world will hae to face a major problum of terrorism and one more lesson to regonal pollatical party in india with creation of one state of pakistan last 60 years we paying the price if another creation of state what will be the fate of the common man it can be another somaliya or sudan be carefull we have defeet such force sply the regional party I requist the zetizen of india dont vote any party which devide us in the name of cast or religion,state"MY BEST WISHES TO ALL A HAPPY INDIPEDENCE DAY" GOD BLESS INDIA AND PEOPLE OF INDIA
    SUBTLE ANTI INDIA AND ANTI HINDU ANTI MUSLIM MESSAGES IN THE FILMBy: n.krishna | 25-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Muslim mafia and christian churches, priests are in to film production. Soft pornography and the soft anti Hindu agenda along with poverty and social conditions of India presented in the movie is good for conversion. People will not notice these subtle message from the movie. Most of the mafia that is involved in child lifting and stealing hospital babies are christian adoption centers through out India. The men who organize child begging syndicates are muslims. But very prominently, on the Van which is seen transporting the kids, Sai is written. The christian producer want to project that Hindus are in to child theft and begging syndicates. It is the christian NGOs that are in to child protection racket so that they collect overseas fund. The overseas adoption racket of stolen kids from hospitals are a big business for christian organizations in India. So, a cross on the van would have been appropriate. Showing Lord Rama during the riot is huring the Hindu sentiments.
    Slimming slums menaceBy: An Observer | 25-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward With such a very high level backing Laluji would be hard put in clearing lakhs of slum dwellers along railway tracks all over the country; thousands of slums have also mushroomed along/near thousands of housing board colonies in metros and towns creating very unhygienic conditions for flats owners, besides tapping very many unlawful connections from water boards, electricity poles, motorised drawals of drinkng water; votebank politics centers have also developed in the process, besides creating very many Laawaris and unlawful elements amongst them. Who cares, who bothers;
    THE IMMERSION IN SHIT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDEDBy: n.krishna | 25-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward The murderous muslim Salim is depicted as nice brother who kills in the end for his brother. He is also shown as a devout praying muslim. This is to insult the ordinary devout ordinary muslims, which these non thinking mulsims will never notice or understand. Young Jamal is made to jump in to shit pit is so horrible to watch and insulting to the core to, even a 21 century fellow who says nothing is objectionable in the film. The reason is that the young Jamal wanted to come out of locked out make shift toilet in the slum to see the arrival of Big B. The whole shit scene must have originated in a sick mind of a christian producer of the film. The film is made to denigrade India and Indians. There is not much music to praise Rahman the way it is done by the media, unless the other competing films are much worse.
    the producer will not dare to show such poor conditions in UKBy: n.krishna | 25-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward The movie Slumdog millionaire is very good. One should not miss it. Movie is a tear jerker and is well presented. Acting is superb by one and all. The movie is fast moving and the photography is quite good. In fact I liked the movie very much, but has a anti muslim, anti hindu agenda behind it which should have been avoided in this 21 century where the very religions are disappearing. Slum people are not poor and many are well educated and very rich. For eg. In the Asia’s biggest slum spread over 432 acres called Dharavi in Mumbai, has has a population of 10 lakh. Engineers and even airline pilots stay there. Dharavi manufactures some $700 million worth of items every year and many residents are millionaires. Some of the scenes in the film are taken at the Kurla area, water pipe line. The Britisher who produced this will not dare to show the poor conditions of the London beggers which is much more pathetic due to extreme cold and extreme negect in UK.
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