A Mumbai teen, who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the
Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under
suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his
life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
Directors:
Danny Boyle, Loveleen TandanWriters:
Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Vikas Swarup (novel)Stars:
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla | See full cast and crew »Storyline
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of
Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the
whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a
staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati?
(2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for
the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a
street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells
the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of
their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local
gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his
story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions.
Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he
learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one
question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent
desire for riches really ... Written by
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Slumdog Millionaire User Reviews
City of God Has One Vital Thing Slumdog Millionaire Does Not
Slumdog Millionaire is
one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2008 but the hype
surrounding it is a bit undeserved. Don't get me wrong, this is at the
very least a good movie and is quite a terrific movie 2/3 the way
through. What the movie does though in the last 1/3 is make the fatal
mistake of turning into a Hollywood or maybe in this case a Bollywood
movie. It takes away from that genuine and satisfying feeling.
The
acting all around was very good particularly from Dev Patel and the
small kids. There performance are probably the only thing that is
overlooked in this film. Without much of these very good performances
the movie would not have been at the level it was at.The directing of
Danny Boyle was his best yet. The look of the film was amazing and many
screen shots of India were breathtaking. The musical score was very
fitting to the style of the movie. It was one of the best scores of
2008. Where this film fell apart was at the writing. Towards the end its
withdrew into a standard romance. It was no longer the great and
amazing adventure we had witnessed for most of the movie. The complex
relations seemed to be over simplified and it does the safe thing to do
in the approach of tone but if taken into a drastically different
direction could have lead it to be a real classic. Yet instead of ever
peaking or sky rocketing to greatness it had plateaued and didn't
deliver the way I had hoped it would, this largely in part by the
failure of the screenplay.
Many people have compared this film to
City of God because the film are actually similar in many ways. Yet
City of God has something Slumdog Millionaire does not have which is
depth and character motivations. These things are vital to these kind of
movies being successful. City of God seemed to have a more plausible
story because the story was more linear. Events took place as a result
of other events. This did not happen in Slumdog Millionaire, the story
was more chopped up and too many of the events just seemed to pop up out
of no where. Slumdog Millionaire did take a very ambitious approach in
the way it was made which is commendable. Is this a 1st rate movie
though? The answer to that is no.
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