Sensation to get poverty noticed...

So Hollywood fame has become the stepping stone for reality to hit home? Slumdog Millionaire and all the hype around it, gets me wondering if sensation is essential to accept grim realities? Lot of things depicted in the movie are exactly how things are in Mumbai slums. But I had trouble accepting that children who go through such atrocities of maiming, child labor, dismal proverty or prostitution ever end up being so hopeful and cheerful in life and almost none had a broken spirit. Overall the movie was nice but at the end, I cringed about misrepresentation through sensationalization of poverty and the related misfortune that comes along with it. Watch The Reader and you would come back awestruck and shaken about everything in it. Absolutely stunning movie!

Anyway, read this:

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, and Rubina Ali Qureshi, nine, who play the lead characters in their younger years, currently live in shacks in the Garib Nagar slum in Bandra East, Mumbai. But Amarjit Singh Manhas, the chairman of the Maharashtra housing authority, told the Times of India: "We felt that since the children have made the nation proud, they must be given free houses."

Is that really a matter of nation's pride? Because I'm not sure, if I feel that way. So all those kids who couldn't get lucky enough to feature in Slumdog Millionaire can take rest because we need Hollywood's sensation to accept and do something about gross realities of India. Don't you think , right intention to do something is as important as the right action?