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[20] Slum dwellers in Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, also protested against the movie, with the campaign reaching a climax on 26 January 2009, when "protesters tore down posters and ransacked a movie theatre" screening the film. The following day, the police in Bihar tightened security "outside theatres in the state to thwart ...
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. [6] It narrates the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai . [ 7 ]
Aamir Khan viewed Slumdog Millionaire as "not an Indian film". [15] In an interview after the Oscars, actor and filmmaker Aamir Khan stated that he did not "see Slumdog ... as an Indian film. I think it is a film about India like Gandhi (that) was made by Sir Richard Attenborough. Similarly, Slumdog... is about India but it is not an Indian film."
Controversies in film concerning the topic of casting actors or actresses that caused a backlash, such as in whitewashing, disability or a transgender role, wanted or had equal pay and gender pay gap for their salary or caused controversies in real-life events just before or after getting a role.
The latest troubling indicator: a respected casting office’s controversial offer to tape auditions for […] Inside the Self-Tape Audition Controversy: The Pros, Cons and Costs for Actors Skip ...
Also included in the complaint are allegations that Baldoni hired crisis PR operatives to wage a sophisticated online smear campaign against Lively as the movie was being released last summer.
Rubina Ali, also known as Rubina Qureshi, also known as Rubina Jodiyawala is an Indian actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, she was cast in the Bollywood film Kal Kisne Dekha (2009).
Unconventional Spanish-language movie musical "Emilia Pérez" may be an Oscars front-runner, but some feel the film is "torturous" and "harmful." 'Emilia Pérez' controversy: Why 'torturous' movie ...