Slumdog Millionaire
Promoted as the “feel Good Film of the Decade” in west – this is something like a Doctor’s prescription for people suffering from anxiety out of economic downturn.
The movies is based on Vikas Swarup’s novel which is turned by director Danny Boyle into a master piece that has won 10 Oscar nominations (including three for A R Rahman, one for Resul Pookutty for Best Sound Design, and the three biggies – Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay).
Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is a street smart Dharavi boy who does odd jobs like serving the tea. He’s learnt his wisdom on the streets, and he uses it to become a millionaire.
Latika ( Freida Pinto), his childhood sweetheart, who is also a product of the same world and lineage that he and his brother Salim come from. Their journey to young adulthood, fraught with many dangers (although is not new for those who are regular with Bollywood movies).
The story is about romance and rags to riches of Jamal Malik who becomes a millionaire in a quiz show (like Kaun Banega Crorepati). Anil Kapoor plays the host of show (too bad Shah Rukh Khan refused the offer). Anil Kapoor, as the devious host of the game-show, turns in one of his most vivid, precise performances. Irrfan Khan and Saurabh Shukla play the hectoring cops, and Mahesh Manjrekar is the brutal ‘bhai’, fit right in.
Some say that Slumdog Millionaire is “poverty pornography” (although later statement denied by Amitabh Bachchan). But the movie is not about a foreigner showing us Indian slums and poverty around the railway tracks. It is an entertaining and exciting journey of a young lad to place where people from slums normally do not go.
And A R Rahman’s score is great. Songa like Jai Ho are already very polular.
Director ( Boyle), screenplay writer ( Simon Beaufoy) and producer (Christian Colson) owing allegiance to the West could have made it possible to be recoganized by western audience and the Oscar nominations.
Cast:
- Anil Kapoor
- Dev Patel (as Jamal Malik)
- Frieda Pinto
- Irrfan Khan
- Saurabh Shukla
Director: Danny Boyle
Official website: http://www.slumdogmillionairemovie.co.uk
Video Clip of movie
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