Slumdog Millionaire

'Slumdog Millionaire' was norminated for 10 awards and has won the best cinematography award from the National Society of Film Critics, US. It is a pretty cool movie to watch. I have enjoyed every moment of it.

It is about the modern rags-to-riches fairytale. From a game show unlocking the childhood memories (or miseries) of a typical poor orphan who grew up in the slumps of mumbai india (aka 'slumpdog').

The film digs into the social troubles and cruelty that emerging economies face (india in this case) - childhood prostitution, gangsters, child beggars, poverty, religion conflicts and so on.

I think the entire script and the movie directions were carefully thought through except towards the later part of the film, u see skyscrapers replacing the slumps, I'm unsure about what the director is trying to deliver, probably to signify that India is shedding its past troubles and ready to be accepted as a new world.

This is my first time watching an indian movie in a cinema. The typical indian dance is incorporated at the end of the show, which I think that is the trademark of all indian movies. When I was a kid, I was totally put off by the typical indian dance on the TV. That's why I never thought I would watch it at all. Well, there is always the first time.

I personally think the moral of the story is the people that we meet will shape our life and reality doesn't lie.

Synopsis
Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Jamal proves his innocence by telling the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to each one of the game show's questions. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out...