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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire – A Bollywood story dealt by a Hollywood crew


American colleague of mine went gaga over Slumdog Millionaire, so I decided to watch it as well. Golden Globes win paved as yet another reason not to miss out on the movie.

It’s a normal rag to riches story where in the lead character Jamal played by Dev Patel participates in Kaun Banega Crorepati for the sole reason to get back his lost love, Lathika played by Freida Pinto.

The story commences with Jamal being in police custody where he is subjected to different tortures in order to figure out how a “Slumdog” like him is able to answer all the questions. Jamal colligates each question to instances in his life much to the surprise of the police played by Irfan Khan and Saurabh Shukla. Police releases him so that he can return to the show for the final question. Anil Kapoor plays Prem Kumar, the KBC host who tries to misguide Jamal in the end but Jamal triumphs. He gets Lathika back who all the while was pursuing the show.

The movie is based on a book Q and A by Vikas Swarup. It has indeed captured the life in Mumbai slums substantially well. All the lead characters have given their best shot. The sound track “Jai Ho” is quite catchy and will stay here for some more time.

Mr Amitabh Bachchan has recently slammed the movie saying that it depicted India in a poor light. Well, Mr Bachchan, slums do exist in India and it’s a ground reality. We do expect celebrities like you to come forth and lend a hand on noble causes instead of walking hand in hand with cretins like Mr Amar Singh.

Summing up, I give a thumbs up for this movie and its worth watching one time. The heroine is seen in yellow attire every time she meets the hero. Do reason it out and let me know as well.

3 comments:

SRISHA said...

May be yellow dresses also mean the same as yellow roses - platonic love. Oh, that poor poor guy!

whoami said...

@Potter
Yellow dress has some significance, watch it and you will get to know.

SRISHA said...

Also, I just came to know that Big B never said anything about the movie, that is even near to what has been wrongly projected by the media.
The media took out only parts of what he said and twisted it wrongly. It never bothered about Big B's intent or spirit at all.

This is how he has reacted to the media's fiasco.
http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/01/16/day-267/

And, this is what he actually said about the movie.
http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/01/13/day-265/