THE SOUND OF MUMBAI

Director: SARAH McCARTHY
Director of Photography: LIAM IANDOLI
Producer: JOE WALTERS

Feature Documentary / 2010 / 63' / English

For one emotional night, a group of slum children in Mumbai, India, get a chance to experience a different world as they perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra, fostering hopes that it could change their lives forever.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• SARAH
• McCARTHY
• LIAM
• IANDOLI
• JOE
• WALTERS
• Feature
• Documentary
• slum
• children
• Mumbai
• India
• The
• Sound
• of
• Music
• classical
• orchestra
• Goldcrest
• films
• international

[queennwanna1]

awwwwwwww the little boy at 1:05 is a cutie

[jillmekouar]

This event was already in the making before she decided to film it. There is a website set up to help these kids and others be able to attain their dreams. I agree it's heartbreaking to watch these kids as their hopes and dreams end after one night..I have seen the entire film several times and it astounds me the attitudes of the upper class toward those people in the lower, but I do think she cares. We never know when our life might change for the better-it's not over yet for any of these kids!

[portstlucie1]

To be clear, the kids live in closets, eat and sleep on the floor with their families, dead rodents are picked at by chickens in the streets, garbage is everywhere. But the upper crust believe they have done something wonderful here? Why did nobody tell these children as they rehearsed & were filmed that this was a one time thing? That then everybody would go away and nobody would care about them? It might have prevented the families actually dreaming life might change for the better.

[portstlucie1]

Jini believes the parents were in awe being in a room full of upper class people. She decides it is karma that may have put the families on the lowest rung of society. What was the filmmaker trying to say or is it just easy to go into the slums of Mumbai, get a few kids, give them a short term dream, add music, tug at the heart & then possibly win an award or two? Oh yes, the filmmaker claims helping the children will now be her life's work. There's a Bkly'n bridge I've got to sell.

[portstlucie1]

After watching the film I was totally appalled at the arrogance of Ms. Jini, so consumed by the class system, as she congratulated herself afterward at having put a bit of a dream into the minds of these young children that they will never stand a chance to attain & having purchased balcony seats for the parents. Goosebumps may come with the hope and the music but horror comes with knowledge that only donations will help the kids. Jini also presumed to know what parents were thinking.

[garistein1]

Here is the trailer. Prepare for goosebumps.