Danny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wild energetic, Dickensian drama about the superficial life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother as his orphan children, raising himself in various slums and crime ridden neighorhoods and fall in for a while, with a monstrous gang exploitation of children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teenager, later goes on a journey to save her from the clutches of the gang, but loses her to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster.
Supplementary to this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, it is almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning any challenge to "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" A strong showing leading to a vicious police interrogation. If Jamal explains how he knows the answer to each question on the show as a result of aggressive events in his life, knock about, the chaos of existence profit form, perspective and soulful ness. The film violence is offset by an enchanting exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story of the most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that audiences get the heart over her head.
DVD details ;
DVD details ;
- Actors: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi
- Format: NTSC, Widescreen
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
- Run Time: 120 minutes
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