Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review – Read review of slumdog Millionaire
24Jan2009 Filed under: Movies Author: jay
Danny boyle an English director or critical acclaim has created a masterpiece in Slumdog Millionaire. With some great technical work and a rather unique storyline (based on novel Q&A), Danny has created what some are suggesting the best movie of 2008 worldwide. Read what some of the prominent online websites (both Indian and International have to say about this movie)
Slumdog Millionaire – Story (to set things into perspective)
The story will be based on a true story of a boy (Jamal) who goes onto the Hindi version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and wins it. However things are complicated when the makers of the show don’t believe he won it fair and square since he’s illiterate. That doesn’t really bother the boy though as he actually went on the show to catch the eye of the girl (Nikita) he loves who he has lost contact with, someone he knows watches every episode
Slumdog Millionaire review (www.bollywoodhungama.com)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE keeps you hooked, there’s not a single dull moment and most importantly, your heart pines for the lovers [Jamal and Latika] to unite, after all that they’ve gone through in life. That’s one of the prime reasons why SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE works big time
If Boyle’s direction and Beaufoy’s screen writing works, so does A.R. Rahman’s exuberant musical score. The background score is eclectic, while the song ‘Jai Ho’ [at the conclusion of the film] is mesmeric. The camera [Anthony Dod Mantle] captures the streets of the metropolis remarkably. Note the chase at the very start, with a constable chasing the young Salim and Jamal in the slums. Brilliant!
On the whole, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is a must-see! One of the finest films of our times, this one should not be missed for any reason
Slumdog Millionaire review (www.ndtv.com)
Instead of realistic emotions tethered to an unrealistic landscape and plot, we have an unrealistic plot tethered to a hyper-realistic landscape. Anthony Dod Mantle’s camera pores over Mumbai, from its over-arching high-rises to its filthiest slums. But the story that takes place here is pure fairy tale
Dev Patel has an endearing presence but a shaky accent and Frieda Pinto, playing Latika, seems more fashion model than slumdog.
Unfortunately, the two also have to exchange dialogue that might make Karan Johar cringe. At one point Jamal says to Latika, “Come away with me”. She asks, “…and live on what?” to which he replies, “On love”.
Slumdog Millionaire review (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is the film equivalent of Usain Bolt’s performance at the Olympics: funny, shocking, spectacularly turbo-charged. It takes your breath away at the same time as it makes you want to holler with joy or to grab the person next to you: “Yes!”
Slumdog Millionaire review (www.rollingstones.com)
Anthony Dod Mantle uses compact digital cameras to move with speed and stealth through the slums and palaces of Mumbai. The film is a visual wonder, propelled by A.R. Rahman’s hip-hopping score and Chris Dickens’ kinetic editing. The whoosh of action and romance pulls you in, but it’s the bruised characters who hold you there. Every step Jamal takes toward his final answer could get him killed. Even in the Bollywood musical number that ends the film, joy and pain are still joined in the dance. The no-bull honesty of Slumdog Millionaire hits you hard. It’s the real deal. No cheating
Slumdog Millionaire review (www.nytimes.com)
A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the latest from the British shape-shifter Danny Boyle, doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next. A modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to become a prince, this sensory blowout largely takes place amid the squalor of Mumbai, India, where lost children and dogs sift through trash so fetid you swear you can smell the discarded mango as well as its peel, or could if the film weren’t already hurtling through another picturesque gutter
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Oh wow well said all the points are well defined i think its just a wake up call as its often forgotten about the poor and how they deal with what happen in their everyday life…pverty still exist in India no one can deny this but no one talks about it in most of the bollywood movies everything is so fake and only glamour and its all the stars get the all the glory people tend ti think thats what India is all about….the movie is reality in a sense that there is slum and theses children do struggle in their everyday life and they are considered as second class citizen everywhere they go they are always pushed last in the queues, people do treat them like nobody and all these things happen to them by their own kind who are wealthy and big headed…i rest my case..flaws are in all remakes and movies but at least someone got guts to do something different…i do agree with the English accent of the main actor it was too refined for someone who was brought up in a slum……..
Scenes of poverty and squalour may appear romantic to Westerners and to our snooty elite but for us ordinary Indians they are nothing new. They are an everyday reality. However, one wonders what sort of mind can find such images aesthetically pleasing. Party-hopping socialites (for example, Shobhaa De after all her bombast of “enough is enough” after the Mumbai attack, went and watched a pirated copy!) who are distanced from such reality may find this film an “eye-opener” but for us it IS just poverty-porn. It IS just slum-tourism. Leaving that aside, I have eight other objections to the film.
1) The director seems to RELISH showing violence. Some of it (like the police-torture) is quite needless. And why was the boy arrested in the first place? On what charge? Was it realistic?
2) How can a boy growing up in slums speak such accented English? Even if one assumes that the language he actually uses to communicate with the game-show host and the police officer is Hindi (granting the director the creative license to use a language better suited for international audiences), there are 2 instances where it is stretched too far: (a) when the boy becomes a ‘guide’ for foreign tourists at the Taj Mahal & (b) when he becomes a substitute-operator at the call-centre.
3) When the boy uses his ‘lifeline’ during the game-show, his friend discovers that she has forgotten her mobile and has to run back for it. This is plain Bollywood masala! Did the director HAVE to make it so melodramatic?
4) How did the boy know who invented the revolver just by watching his brother use it?
How does his friend know about Benjamin Franklin (something which many Americans themselves don’t know!)?
5) “Darshan Do Ghanshyam†is NOT written by Surdas. It is written by Gopal Singh Nepali for the movie Narsi Bhagat (1957). This song is also credited as traditional and originally written by 15th century poet Narsi Mehta, whose life that film is based on.
6) After winning the game-show, the boy sits on the railway platform and nobody recognizes him! Considering the popularity of the show, is that realistic?
7) Two glaring omissions: To get invited to the show one has to answer several GK questions over phone or Internet. Even after making it to the show, a contestant can reach the hot-seat, only after qualifying through “fastest finger firstâ€. All this is conveniently forgotten in the film.
8) And of course the greatest flaw in the storyline: programmes like ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ are NOT telecast live. As a result the entire structure of the film becomes unrealistic. For a film that boasts of being realistic such a flaw cannot be overlooked.
Anyone else wants to say this is a g-r-e-a-t film despite all these flaws?