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I agree with the author...Being poor in India is all about day-to-day survival, the only thing that the poor here worry about is where their nextmeal is coming from and sadly enough, nothing has improved over all these years...it only gets worse! On another note,the grown up Jamal in the movie is too polished, too"fair"( when you compare him to the small and middle Jamal) and too calm to have witnessed such atrocities in his life. All said and done, the least the movie has done is to make us think about what's right/ wrong in India and how it's taken a foreign director to get us talking!
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