Slumdog millionaire officially is now hugely successful - the rags to riches story of a slum boy who becomes a millionaire reflects in the rags to riches fate of the movie itself . Legend has it that the movie was to release in a DVD-only format , but as its tagline goes - born to lose , destined to win - it was finally released with over 600 prints and has grossed $42.5 mn ( Rs.205 cr ) as of 19th jan , a week before its Indian premiere , promising more moolah to the Fox studios.
Somewhere else , another generational rags to riches story plays out in a downright-deprived-to-absolutely-powerful sort of manner - Barack Obama becomes the first occupant of the white house ( Might as well change its name now to Presidents house or One,Washington).
A couple of years back , Shilpa Shetty got caught in a racist battle between her and Jade Goody on an episode of Big Brother . Jade called her 'brown' and it sparked a huge row in the UK for the then PM Tony Blair . Guess who succeeded Blair as the next PM - Gordon 'Brown' !
Irony again that the biggest fraud in Indian corporate history had to be called 'Satyam'.
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