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Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Actors: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi

  • Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love? Run time: 120 mins

  • 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 FOR CHEATING & WHILE BEING INTERROGATED, EVENTS FROM HIS LIFE HISTORY ARE SHOWN WHICH EXPLAIN WHY HE KNOWS THE ANSWERS. 1/3 IS IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES-REST IN ENGLISH


    Danny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wildly energetic, Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother are orphaned as children, raising themselves in various slums and crime-ridden neighorhoods and falling in, for a while, with a monstrous gang exploiting children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teen, later goes on a journey to rescue her from the gang's clutches, only to lose her again to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster.

    Running parallel with this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, is the almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning every challenge on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," a strong showing that leads to a vicious police interrogation. As Jamal explains how he knows the answer to every question on the show as the result of harsh events in his knockabout life, the chaos of his existence gains shape, perspective and soulfulness. The film's violence is offset by a mesmerizing exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh



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    Customer Reviews:
     
    A Really Good Film but not as Great As I Was Led To Believe!
    Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 
    I enjoyed this film but I did not feel it was as great as all the hype it has received. The director uses flashbacks in a confusing manner starting with an adult Jamal being tortured in a Mumbai police station. We are then treated to all kinds of flashbacks with an adult Jamal playing the India version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and a very poor kid Jamal being abused by his bully brother Salim. Salim locks Jamal in an outhouse when the local celebrity comes to visit their villiage. The only way Jamal can get out is to fall in the cesspool beneath the outhouse. A Jamal covered with feces is able to get an autograph from the star.

    Jamal's misery is intensified as his brother sells his Jamal's autographed photo and then a bunch of rioters kill the boys' mother. The two boys escape the rioters to be taken in by some criminals that are trafficing and exploiting young children. The boys eventually escape but Salim twarts the escape of Jamal's female friend Latika.

    The movie follows them as they grow up and Jamal is constantly searching for his friend Latika. The movie shifts constantly between the present day torture in the police station, Jamal answering questions on the TV game show and the boys story growing up.

    All through their life Salim is bad to Jamal and Jamal can never seem to find happiness without Latika. I really liked most of the film but I found the constant flashbacks and time shifts to be annoying. Also, the subtitles when needed were virtually impossible to read. Jamal's game show experience did not seem believable except if the movie were to be labelled a fantasy.

    I did like the Bollywood number that the director threw in to the end. I liked the Paper Planes song that is played in part of the movie.

    One of the better movies of 2008 but not the epic film that many make this movie out to be.


    Million Dollar Movie!
    Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 
    Slumdog Millionaire has become one of my favorite movies. Love the premise, the music, the dance. What a surprise hit!

    Is it a drama?
    Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 
    In the movie time goes backwards, but that's a common technique. Everything begins with a boy from Moombai, Jamal Malik (Dev Pootel) participating in "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Jamal grew up in boondocks and didn't have any education whatsoever. He works as a waitress in a cell company and he shouldn't really know any answers. Seriously what can he possibly know besides how much milk goes into tea. Lost eyes, no emotions also support the idea and clearly audience makes fun of him. But as the show goes on, showman Kumar has less and less to laugh about, because Jamal answers all the questions he's asked. And when the prize is almost there, Kumar gets obsessed with idea that Jamal is cheating. He thinks that there is no way guy like this can answers the questions that couldn't been answered by educated people with degrees. They send Jamal to police, where he gets beaten and tortured. There he tells policeman about his life and why he knows the answers. His life was cruel and tough of course. Poor childhood in a Muslim family, murder of his mother by fanatics, loitering with his brother Salil and girl Latika, begging, tough love of him and Latika, betrayal of Salil, mafia and a chance to win 20000000 and find his love. Then goes traditional Indy songs and dances.
    Danny Boyl - the director of the movies is original and versatile. Drama about drugattics in " ", adventure "Beach", horror - "28 days", totally stupid "Sunshine", and now drama "Millionaire" where Boyl mixed original Indy movie with a thoroughly planned scheme "Movie for Oscar". And it worked. First of all the movie got 8 Oscars plus 75 awards and 26 nominations. Second, with budget of only 15000000(half of which were spent on snacks) it collected 300000000 over the world (almost like a "Pulp Fiction" back in the days).
    The movie isn't bad. The idea of mixing Bollywood and Hollywood is quite interesting. But the real drama didn't happen in my opinion. Boyl created a typically Hollywood fairytale: poor but honest guy takes trails over the years in order to get money, girl and a car (or maybe personal Rickshaw).
    The main idea of the movie is that uneducated guy got lucky to know all the answers because of his sad life experience and that can't take any critics. So that's a fairytale although movie is brought as a drama. Why then all these coincidences? But on the other hand if we assume that the game for a million is a contrast to support the pitiful life in boondocks of Bombay. Boyl was very precise in showing all the horrors of that life.
    I don't want to say it's loosely made movie. But all the soap is overrated. His girl was a towel for a mafia boss and then she runs away to a recently rich tea-seller. That's once again for those who likes fairytales or doesn't defy drama from melodrama.
    Well, Boyl wasn't orienting on a people like me. People like me wouldn't bring 300000000 for the movie or not even that $15000000 budget. But those people who like fairytales, brought that money. So, Boyl was right.


    slumdog millionaire
    Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 
    Product was a gift, recieved on time and the video quality was great.
    Thanks

    Not a Bollywood movie
    Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 
    Slumdog Millionaire is more than just a story of love, loss and betrayal or a catchy song. The images of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) are very powerful, raw and real; sometimes too real for people to see, and may make people feel uncomfortable, but that's life in India. As someone who has been there, I have seen the beauty and the wealth, the crippled and the poor and the generosity of people far less fortunate than me.




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