Yesterday I got to watch the most talked movie of the year 'Slumdog Millionaire'. The movie is all about a person called Jamal Malik. It talks about his childhood and how his life goes and how he wins "Who wants to be a Millionaire". The casts includes Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Saurabh Shukla and others. The most confusing part of the movie is how Jamal and his brother Salim, who are from a slum speaking Hindi, starts conversing in English with utmost fluency given the fact was that they are uneducated. Apart from this, I found not much of a flaw in the movie and Rahman's music was as usual awesome. The screenplay was adapted from a Warner Bros movie and it was good. The chemistry between Jamal and Lathika was nice and have taken well. Initially I was skeptical about the movie after listening to reviews from many, but after watching the movie I found it be good but not as great to be nominated for 10 Oscars. I somehow feel that there are many films taken in India which are better than Slumdog Millionaire which deserves more credit that what it had got. Apart from the director, everything else about this movie is Indian and proud to see an Indian nominated for 2 Oscars. I wish him all the very best and hope he brings more glories to India.
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Many Indians felt this way but when talking to Americans here... i kinda got to know that they felt the fairy tale story of "rags to riches" very appealing... and also the unimaginable poverty that was featured made them realize the reality... it was mainly promoted word of mouth here... and almost everybody(Americans) i talked to just loved the movie.
-Girish
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