Slumdog Millionaire

I have to admit it is a good movie, but the movie is so explicit and shows the poor side of Mumbai like never before. I DON'T LIKE IT

Slumdog Millionaire opens the rotten face of India, does it? Does it show the so called “dirty underbelly” of India? Slumdog word is racist as alleged by a chap from Bihar. But really?? If I had one word to describe these comments it would have been a *beep*!!

By no means this movie is aimed at showing the chronic poverty of our nation. Many reviewers have criticized this movie for showing only the dirty reality of the country instead of displaying all those swanky buildings, glittering malls etc.

Slumdog Millionaire narrates a story of 2 siblings & a girl, who rise from the dirty slum life and move into different directions of life. The older brother (”Salim“-played by Madhur Mittal) ends up working for a gangster, the girl (”Latika“-played by Frieda Pinto) ends up as a show girl with the same gangsters and the hero of the movie the younger brother (”Jamal“-played by Dev Patel) ends up living a rather straight life as a tea server in a call center. Jamal reaches the “hot seat” of Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by an arrogant quizmaster Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) who don’t want him to win the game. He calls the police to get Jamal Malik arrested on the charges of fraud at the end of day 1 of the show. At the police station Jamal is tortured first by the sound thrashing from Constable Srinivas (Saurabh Shukla) and then he is subjected to electric shock, all to make him speak about how a tea serving slumdweller can give the correct answers.

The movie revolves around the dingy slums of Dharavi. The heaps and heaps of garbage, dogs with flees, young Jamal jumping in a pit full of *beep* (*sic*), hindu-muslim riots, pimps, gangsters, rough language is some of the few characteristics of the film which together with the superb cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle makes it an ultra realistic movie. Kudos to the director Danny Boyle and co-director Loveleen Tandon for the impressive direction and superb camera takes which shows the minutest of the details of the dirty slum life. The screenplay was outstanding.

Acting:If I had to rate the performance of the characters I would surely give a high five to the children artists of the movie. Almost half of the movie shows them and their acting was very natural and realistic. Dev Patel was fine too. Frieda Pinto didn’t had too much of the screen time but delivered good performance. Anil Kapoor was cool. Irrfan Khan as the deadly cop together with Saurabh Shukla gave the top performances together with the child artists. Mahesh Manjrekar was looking a real gangster. He was rough, bad and whatever you may call a gangster. Madhur Mittal as the older brother Salim was quite good.

Sound/Music: Well the music has so many nominations for the Oscars what more can I write!!??!!
The sound effects were superb. The background score was creepy good. “Jai Ho” track comes at the end of the movie. The song is classic but I doubt whether it would take away the oscar. Let’s hope for the best. A.R Rahman proves that he is the best in this field!

The movie has been given an “A” certificate and rightly so. It has some good amount of strong language, violence in the form of riots, torture, a child being blinded with hot syrup (something), murder and other such things happening in the slums. These violent scenes are quite chilling and tense.

Overall I would recommend this movie to every person who has a tag “Indian” attached to him/her. A detailed insight into the murky life of slumdwellers. Slumdog Millionaire is one of those movies which has a happy ending. And out of the 10 oscar nominations it would bag atleast three i.e in “cinematography”, “editing” & for the song “Jai Ho”. It is a perfect edge of the seat thriller wrapped in the ghostly realities of slums.
Hightly recommended.

- Mudit Sood 

jus wanna say...

JAI HO!!!

latika is so beautifullllll...

slumdog millionaire roxxx!!!!!

Saw Slumdog millionair a little late, and came to the concliusion that its a good movie as far as the cinematography and techinacilities are concerned, but story wise I find a lot of loop holes. No I cannot relate to this movie at all, yes there are some parts which are so called "real" but at the end of it, this is a typical bollywood movie, with a lot of cliches.

Coming to the music Depptt maybe this is new for the west, but I guess Rahman has given much better music than this, but still I would rate the music as okish. I was particularly dissappointed by the lrics of the movie, specially the song "Ringa Ringa" and when I came to know that this was written by Gulzar, I was more dissappointed.

Overall worth one time watch

My rating: 3 stars

ITS GREAT!IT SHOWS WHAT MOSTLY WE INDIANS SHY AWAY FROM OR NEGLECT.ALLTHE ACTORS HAVE DONE A COMENDABLE JOB.EVEYTHING WAS FAB.IT SHOULD GET ALL THE10 OSCARS.MANY PEOPLE SAY ITS ALL ABOUT DARK SIDE OF MUMBAI,BUT WE ALWAYS AVOID THE REALITY.NO ONE HAS DONE ANYTHING TO REDUCE POVERTY.IF DANNY BOYLE HAS SHOWN THE DARK SIDE OF MUMBAI,LET'S TRY 2 TAKE LESSONS FROM IT AND START REDUCING POVERTY.POVERTY EXISTS,THAT'S WHY IT'S SHOWN.WE CAN'T FACE REALITY AND THAT'S WHY WE SHOUT WHEN SOMEONE TRIES 2 DO SO.I LLOVED THE MOVIE AND I HOPE THE 3 SLUM AREA KIDS GET BENEFITTED FROM IT.

HATS OFF TO SLUMDOG CROREPATI!

I saw this movie recently. N plzzz not a pirated copy.
This movie is a must-needed movie for Indian Audiences....truely an excellant piece of work.

Perfect selection of artists even the child artists. Music is subtle yet pumping. Rehman is the only Gud Musician we hv i guess. Story is too gud, n directed flawlessly by Danny Boyle...giving us a reality check abt the harsh truth of Mumbai. Its an eye-opener too for the level of corruption goes in this reel world. Its an eye-opener for few indian directors too.

Do Watch It. Though i dont hv to tell it cos m sure there are still ppl in this world who appreciates flicks like this one.

OK, so I was very eager to see this move after reading all the online blog wars between celebs. My take? Its a great move, very gripping, and very well made. My only fear is that westerners will be sucked into believing that this is the real India. Which could be a big problem - given that they already know so little about India. The movie is a "masala" film without all the bollywood songs. Its a well made movie... but it would be worth saying again that its a very over exagerrated fiction about slum dwellers in Mumbai. Yes, many of the things we see do occur - but not in such a highly magnified way and not in such a high frequency in any single slum dwellers life. Its a very clever use of slums and gangsters in Mumbai ... but again far from reality. Well made.... but (westerners specially) do not get sucked into believing this is the real India. You can get the slumdog millionaire download torrent from here.

THIS MOVIE IS JUS THE BEST I GOT NO MORE TO SAY THAN THT!

i mean it shows the different things in india which people who dont knw need to knw and underrstand that people are not all as fortuante as others, and we should not take things for granted i mean lookin at this movie u will understand, and it shows how far soemone can go to find their love such as dev patel in the film knwn as jamal finds freida pinto as latika his long lost love he gets her and he becomes a millioonaire jus by a game show i mean comon game shows r not jus for the rich xxx

I saw the movie, it was ok.  the story is good at some level except for the weard ending. the dialogues could've been more profound because i can't recall any conversation. nevertheless, i should praise the idea of" knowing the answers" it is touching and  the beautiful views . the best character was of Irfan khan, well written and well pictured eventhough it was just a small part, then in a second place comes the young Patel where he showed a great talent. But i have to admitte that I liked the perfomence of the kids. The sound track and the music were bad and very conventional. At last I must mention a chocking scene at the movie which is when the kids lost their mother in an attack, what have disturbed me is the line " the muslims have come" and the bizzar way that they were pictured. That scene was offending, i mean the writer has no right to use this adjective(muslim) to discribe a banch of sick psycho terrorists who want to justify their actions and make it leagal behind the argument of religion. excuse me but that hurted the feelings of millions of muslims. the writer could've said simply terorrists. that was totally unprofessional.