Slumdog Millionaire Movie Watch Online Reviews, Story
SlumDog Millionaire is a very emotional and wonderful movie.It is the story of an orphaned beggar and the story of poverty and hunger that prevails in the urban slums in India, in this case the boy is from the Dharavi, the largest slum colony in Asia.
Wildly silly but entirely watchable, the film is best enjoyed when you aren’t taking it too seriously, merely submitting yourself to its roller-coaster ride of exhilarating romance and heightened drama. It is after all a film with a big beating heart, a film that feels such affection for its characters.
Indeed Slumdog Millionaire is that rare foreign film that uses the Bollywood idiom to tell a simple, even clichéd underdog story with remarkable success.
Jamal and Salim, are two brothers living in a Mumbai slum, when an anti-Muslim riot breaks out. Their mother is bludgeoned by the rioteers, leaving the two kids to fend for themselves. The metro city’s garbage dumps becomes their living ground, also their livelihood. Till one day they are spotted by a beggary racketeer.
They move in his dwelling. But shortly flee from it, on discovering that kids are blinded to make them more suitable to beggary.
They flee to Agra, and start living a comfortable lifestyle, posing as guides, conning foreign tourists visiting The Taj Mahal, for their top dollar.
Story Line
18-year-old Jamal Malik (played by Dev Patel) is an orphan who has spent his life scavenging on the streets, until he lands a spot as a contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, where he makes a killing. The host of the show (played by a bullying, bellowing Anil Kapoor) mocks Jamal for his low-class roots, and has him arrested on suspicion of cheating – after all, how could an ordinary chai-wala know the answers to all these tough questions?
Sitting there tied up and being thrashed around by the cops, Jamal reveals how each question corresponds to a specific life lesson from his tragic past. His is a horrific tale of watching his mother being killed in front of his eyes, narrowly escaping mutilation himself, and losing his childhood friend to a prostitution ring.
The director tries to incorporate each and every mileu of the wonder that is India, in the film - The harsh life of a slum orphan. The familiar site of corrupt Indian policeman scrubbing his pot bellies. The pseudo-American lives of call centre workers. The traffic. The underworld. The prostitutes. The Gods and religious riots. The Bollywood. The revolution of cable TV and mobile phone. And alongwith it the dreams of aspiring one billion Indians.
The film breaks open with the famous reality TV show - Who wants to be a millionaire? And the contestant is none other than Jamal Malik, who has graduated to become a tea vendor in a call centre.
Quizzing him in the hot seat is Anil Kapoor, the show host. Kapoor gives a brilliant performance in the film, even surpassing the real host Amitabh Bachchan of the show Kaun Banega Crorepati?
The movie, thereafter pans between the show, a police station and Jamal’s life. In the cast are Freida Pinto, Mumbai based model known for her De Beers and Skoda ads. Pinto is cast as Latika, another orphan and love life of Dev Patel aka Jamal Malik, the slumdog protagonist.
As an 18-year old actor and ex-world Taekwando champion, British born Patel gives a gripping performance, the heart of the film.
Simon Beaufoy beautifully adapts Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A on the screen. While co-director Lavleen Tandan, fills the dialogues with choicest Hindi words to give a real life colour.
Overall, Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant and entertaining portrayal of a urban slum urchin, who is on the way to bag a jackpot in the TV show.
It’s a good movie and watchable. A lovely movie to watch in theaters.
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor
Direction: Danny Boyle
Rating : 4/5
Suggestion : Must Go For Movie
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