Slumdog Millionaire, UK (2008)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor.
Sheer cinematic experience.
Slumdog Millionaire undoubtedly would take you to that state. From how it has shown the art of composition, movement, light and music, it has amazingly shape the power of film as a visual medium. Director Danny Boyle wonderfully captures the picturesque of urban India using dramatic camera angles, sensory fast-paced events and the delightful score along with it.
Based on Indian author Vikas Swarup’s novel ‘Q&A’, it takes you to the life of Jamal Malik who is one question away from winning the top prize of India’s ‘Who Wants to be A Millionaire’ game show. But the show’s host Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) is suspicious why Jamal seems to know the answers to the questions, knowing that he is uneducated. Slowly, through flashbacks, Jamal goes back to his striking childhood with brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and friend Latika (Frieda Pinto).
Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy renders a cleverly-structured screenplay, taking us from the rowdy heart of slum life to the suave world of the game show. Interweaving these two through the use of dramatic flashbacks, it is ingeniously inventive. Danny Boyle’s direction is amazingly stunning, making India’s landscape glow in genuine life. A.R. Rahman’s music is also very much unmistakably euphonious, leaving audience humming and oftentimes thumping their feet along with its beats.
Slumdog Millionaire is a fresh take on Hollywood’s Oscar dazzles for years. Finally, a film which doesn’t focuses about Holocaust or any historical fundamentals, or such gruesome cliché endings, or even epic battles, but which is rather a simple tale of brotherhood, friendship and love. The film is firmly uncomplicated yet marvelously moving.
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