Movie Review - Slumdog Millionaire

Here’s a movie that is true to life, depicts reality to the fullest and yet gives you opportunities to laugh at the ironies of life. Here is Slumdog Millionaire, set in the infamous slums of India’s very own Bombay. Meet Jamal (played by Dev Patel), seated on the sets of “Who wants to be a Millionaire”, and is possibly on course to win what dreams are made up of. Except that he is a tea-boy at a call centre, and is arrested on suspicion that he knows all the answers, is beaten up and interrogated. It is with these questions from the police, where we embark on a colourful trip into Jamal’s life, learning along the way, just how he manages to answer all those questions correctly. This is not your typical fairytale nor is it another rags to riches story. Director Danny Boyle takes you through this journey where he depicts Jamal’s life in stark realities, along with engaging scenes, some of them disturbing, violent and including profanity. There story is crisp as we come across Jamal and his brother as little kids and how they are orphaned, how they meet another orphan Latika, how they succumb to the cunning ways of kidnappers, how they muddle through and the evil of the “underworld”. Prepare to be overtaken by a range of emotions including joy, pity, anger, revulsion and shock, and yet by the end of it, making you feel, “wow, what a movie”. Read more movie reviews on http://www.moviereviews.ae/

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