The film Slumdog Millionaire has found an unusual fan: PC Chidambaram. Yes, him of raise-the-tax-for-middle-class motto. India’s new Home Minister and forever-Finance Minister, as reports PTI, sees the film as elevating: he feels it showcases the entrepreneurial talents of slum dwellers in India. “Please watch the movie after its release," he said on Jan 24, a day after the film was released in theatres across the country.
“A slum like Dharavi in Mumbai is humming with business ideas and innovations and we have to reach to such people also… (A) 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.”
No doubt, Mr Chidambaram. But what “innovative ideas” and “necessary qualities” do we see among the slum dwellers in the film?
Besides a man with a telescopic memory for all things that has screwed up his life, let’s see:
# in your childhood, how to con people
# in youth, how to con people
# in adulthood, how to con people
And, somewhere along the way, how to shoot a gun and join a gang.
Simple. And uncomplicated.
Good business sense and skill? You bet! Little wonder, his motto is raise the tax for the middle class.
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