Salaam Bombay’s opening scene shows how slum is disorganized and messy with everything muddled up. But unlike Slum Dog Millionaire, this movie does not portray intense congestion of the slum throughout the movie which in the Oscar-winning movie was signified throughout the chase scene. Salaam Bombay shows infrastructure of the slum as the same as the modern …show more content…
Classism is evidently visualized in Slum Dog Millionaire which is the result of poverty in a worldwide economy. In the movie, Jamal instead of his name, is continuously called a “chai wallah” in various scenes of the movie. Which clearly indicates that he is referred to as someone who belongs to a low-class family and not from an elite class. When Jamal is inspected and examined by the police officer in the movie, he asserts that “Because I’m a slumdog chai wallah, I’m a cheat, right?” To this question, the police officer answers that, “Most of you are” (Slumdog Millionaire 2008). This class status was the core reason he was bashed with adverse and negative comments when he got a job in the …show more content…
Most of these villages are the abodes of misery, vice, and filth, and the nurseries of sickness and disease. In these bustees are found green and slimy stagnant ponds, full of putrid vegetable and animal matter in a state of decomposition and whose bubbling surfaces exhale, under a tropical sun, noxious gases, poisoning the atmosphere and spreading disease and death. These ponds supply the natives with water for domestic purposes and are often the receptacles of filth (Chattopadhyay,