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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/05/24 01:49 PM
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Filmed in India...but NOT Just the Usual-Touristy-Taj-Mahal.
Get ready to REALLY do some Slumming, as you enter the world of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel)..orphaned-early and struggling for his life with his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal), & occasionally-joined by another orphan girl, Latika (Freida Pinto). The film's a Fictional Biography of these 3 Survivors, from the Slums of Mumbai.
Directors Danny Boyle and Lovelean Tandan skillfully-interpreted a novel, "Q & A" by author Vikas Swarup (With a fine assist by Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy), that interweaves an Emerging New India, "Warts-&-All", with the Indian Version of America's "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE" Game Show.
Jamal's managed to survive one of the toughest childhoods imaginable: Killer Cops, Street Gang Violence, Starvation, Religious Persecution, Depressing Poverty. You'll re-live it with him, as Flashbacks to "All The Above" help him answer Question-After-Question on the Game Show. (GREAT Kid Actors, too-numerous to list here, make for some Vivid, Well-Acted..& often Grim, yet Skilfully-Humorous Scenarios.)
There's a raw, beautiful-grittiness that permeates this film: Beautiful Colors, Interesting Place-after-Place-after-Place (That most Tourists would NOT be safe to Visit In!). The street excitement is increased by wonderfully-chosen Local Music.
All this unexpected Beauty is Counterpointed by frequent Violence, Murders, and one of this year's Strangest Love Stories Ever hangs in the balance of Jamal's surviving "Police Questioning" so he can get back to the TV Show to answer the final "Million Dollar Question".
See it & Find Out how he fares, eh? It's 2009's first "10-Outta-10" Movies I've seen..(HOPE there are a few More!)
There's enough Humor in-between all the Very, Very Sad Goings-On here to make this the Hit it Deserves to Be. You get a pretty good "Update" on what India's turning out to be for its "Survivors"..the ones you hear from the Phone Banks near-weekly..who, many, were former "Slumdogs". (Even AFTER it ends, there's a Credit Roll with an Indian Dance Number straight outta West Side Story..that's definitely an "Upbeat Note" as you exit. The Dance Number...IS a bit "Outta Place"...but you can tell the Directors & Distributors wanted you to feel really GOOD after this Movie ran..& you will.) The camera-work & acting is SO good I wouldn't mind seeing this one Twice!
JMO..Keep-or-Sweep-it!
Big Hugs, Stan
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