Last weekend my bro and I went to watch this movie (have been waiting forever for it to be screened). It doesn't need a rocket scientist to figure out why it is the most amazing film to date. Most importantly, it reflects the ugly side of MUMBAI (despite the glamour and all), and the movie explore the activities that most people living in MUMBAI would want to deny. My heart pours for the kids, who had to fend for themselves in slums, dumpsites, and I sincerely feel that it does not only happen in India, but our part of the world as well...I totally enjoyed the movie, and I think the kids are brilliant in their acting (if I need to compare with the heroine, Freida Pinto). She only appears after 1 hour plus into the movie! Dev Patel is definitely the guy to watch for, and I hope Danny Boyle will keep on making movies lkihe this. It's no wonder they won 8 Oscars, incl. Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Song and Best Original Score, among others. Here I'll give you some background on the movie, taken from wikipedia (oh, I know some of you are just too lazy to wiki it).
Have fun and enjoy the show!
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, co-directed by Loveleen Tandan, and written by Simon Beaufoy. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young man from the slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati, mentioned in the Hindi version) and exceeds people's expectations, arousing the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials.
After screenings at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire initially had a limited North American release on 12 November 2008 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, to critical acclaim and awards success. It later had a nationwide release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009 and in the United States on 23 January 2009. It premiered in Mumbai on 22 January 2009.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight of them, the most for any film that year, including Best Picture. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. The film is also the subject of controversy concerning its portrayal of India and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actor
