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Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review

By Siddhartha
Slumdog Millionaire is a tale from india which is being portrayed on screen by a foreigner. And to be very honest the director "Danny Boyle" has done a fabulous job. He has made sure the movie does not become a very stylish representation of an indian slum and its occupants.

Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is in a very critical moment of his life where he is just one question short of winning twenty million rupees and at the same time he is being questioned by the police in a local police station in Mumbai doubting his integrity.

The main storyline of the movie is based on the popular game show in india "Kaun Banega Crorepati" and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". The hero Jamal an ordinary tea serving office assistant in Mumbai has come to participate in this contest not for money but for something else more important than that.

The story goes to a flashback mode where Jamal and his younger brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) just keep rocking in whatever they do. Their mother gets killed in a tragic communal violence between Hindus and Muslims. In that riot when they escape the mayhem they also find Latika (Freida Pinto) and our little Jamal develops a liking for her in that age itself.

Jamal, Salim and Latika find their own ways to grow up in life and each individual faces certain ordeals which inturn gives the knowledge for Jamal to bring him to this stage in the competition. The host of the game show Prem (Anil Kapoor) tries to be very nice and caring in the beggining only to be learnt of his dark side later in the movie.

Jamal who madly in love with Latika comes in search of her in the end only to be turned back everytime. Whether Jamal gets to win 20 million rupees and what happens to his sweetheart Latika forms the rest of the movie.

The main highlights of the movie are the screenplay written by Simon Beaufoy, the crisp editing by chris dickens, Cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle and the music by Indian Musical Wizard A.R.Rahman.

Irrfan Khan and Saurabh Sukhla as police officers have performed their supporting roles to perfection.

On the whole a brilliant movie which is set to enthrall the viewers in a style of its own.

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