'Slumdog Millionaire' at the Golden Globes

Yesterday morning had the Golden Globes ceremony coming on live on the television and I beat the morning cuckoo to wake in the wee hours of a Monday. With A.R. Rahman being nominated, it promised be an occasion not to miss and that too with a lot of favourable press reports of his chances and the prayer of another 'First Indian to ...."
And disappointed I was not ! When the shy maestro fished out a little piece of paper and read out his 'acceptance', one felt a rare sense of pride. When Danny Boyle walked to the dias to accept his 'Best Director', I tried to hide my face seeing Anil Kapoor monkeying around and thumping the air in a gauche manner. But what the hell, all is pardoned when honours galore were bestowed on a movie we have now 'adopted' as our own !
What I hope it will usher is more foreign studios hunting for scripts in the subcontinent, looking for talent in areas more than acting like music. I also hope we get more Indian producers getting attracted to more 'interesting' and meaningful cinema. But with the films that hit the screens last year, there is also a promise of good cinema with audience flocking to the multiplexes appreciating 'different' genre films and actors like Abhay Deol, Vinay Pathak showing the way to senior colleagues.