Beggars & choosers

I watched Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. The sound quality wasnt too good on my DVD, and it should have been best viewed at the theatre. I think I need to watch it once again before I can make judgements about it. But I dont know if I can go through it again. Some movies depress you in parts or whole and it is a torture going through it again. I almost lost the heart to view it when I reached the part where the kids are taken to be blinded for a life as beggars. (Getting caught by beggars and blinded for begging was one of my greatest fears as a kid - a fear that adults at home always nurtured to prevent one from any form of danger)
After Maximum City, it was like reliving life in the slums of Bombay once again. A city so dangerous, depressing yet dazzling.
An eminently watchable movie inspite of everything _ I mean, the controversies that have increased after the Oscar nominations.
p.s. The weekend preoccupations, apart from this, were a marriage reception on Saturday night, morning mass as usual on Sunday and a visit to a friend's place in the evening which the kids enjoyed since there were two peers and plenty of toys to play with. V has kindly advised me to break the non-veg fast (since I am on an Ayurveda diet for my backpain) for 2 days to celebrate the birthday. An offer I took up eagerly...