Slumdog Millionaire , a wonderfully entertaining movie . The story is about how Indian teen Jamal Malik participate in the contest " Who wants to be a Millionaire ? " to prove his love for Latika . Much of the movie drama takes place on the set of the game show hosted by Anil Kapoor.Story begins in the slums of Mumbai and ends up on the shiny set of the show "Who wants to be a Millionaire ? ". Jamal Malik is on the verge of answering the final question that will win him 20 million rupees a whopping amount and the entire nation is watching television to hear his final answer.
Jamal Malik , a chai wala in a BPO company , who is uneducated answers some of the most typical questions in the show to become a millionaire . Well what is wonderfully done is the way each question is related to his life and he knows the answers , because life has shown him the answer of each question. Pay attention and life will tell you all you need to know !! Danny Boyle director of the movie has depicted a picture of childhood exploitation , racism , jealousy , voilence and survival . Each question is some how related to the life of Jamal Malik and it is shown how he recalls his childhood experiences to answer the questions. The film is humorous in chunks , specially the role played by the small kid who represented the childhood of Jamal and that sequence where the small jumps to the pool of shit just to get the autograph of Amitabh Bachan ...ah that was really hilarious !! The story uses flashbacks and three set of actors are shown to represent the ages of Jamal Malik , his brother Saleem and Latika .
Danny Boyle has depcited the past of India , from the slumps of Mumbai to the Taj Mahal in Agra to the most popular dhobi ghat of Uttar Pradesh ... ya even that old Allahabad bridge was shown... which just refreshed some of my memories. The sound track is also great specially that last song "Jai ho" is really good.
An absolutely heart-warming film that Hollywood cannot produce nowadays. Fortunately there is Bollywood! Don't miss the movie of the year. As for my part I have to see this again soon !!
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Heard a lot about this one, seems to be an awesome movie, hasn't released in NCR though. Hopefully it will soon. :-)
@Vikram ... awesome movie dude ... well not released in India though ... saurabh downloaded it using torrent !!
i agree with 'heart-warming, entertaining'. i am curious abt ur idea of it being 'movie of the year' - and the flaws? to begin with: live KBC - do u see the problems??
@pag...well for the flaws...every film has some or the other loop hole ..but I don't see much of the problem if they showed the KBC episode live ...dont seem a flaw to me and for me it is the movie of the year.. don't remember any movie better than this released in 2008 !!
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