June 21, 2009
it gave me the reason to smile again,
User Comments for Slumdog Millionaire
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May 7, 2009It took me a while to get around to it but it was good quite different for a change...
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April 7, 2009This is a two-bit feel good summer coming of age indie flick gone horribly, horribly awry. My nightmare has come true. I'll be hiding in a cave if anyone needs me.
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April 2, 2009It looks so crappy and overated, just like all the music videoclip from India.
Edit: Well WTF.. how did they manage with the trailer of the movie to show something that looked like a dance movie while in fact it wasn't a dancing movie until the credit... After all it was very good since it wasn't a lame videoclip of india. -
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March 24, 2009what a shame...world is praising the slumdog bt few of our countryman still criticizing the masterpiece..every indian shld watch the excellent work by danny
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March 16, 2009hey everybody can u all help me.I saw slumdog millionaire.It is awesome! but I want to see it again but I have not a DVD can u all tell how I can see this film free? Please send me emails on anuka0717@yahoo.com
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March 7, 2009
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The plot of a slum boy entering the contest is as bizarre as our Hindi films’ B-grade movies’ plots. But, since it was made by a British filmmaker… SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE has become the toast of the season worldwide. Vidhu Vinod Chopra must be thinking, what went wrong with his PARINDA?
Johnny D
http://johnnydbombay.mid-day.com
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March 7, 2009
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Danny Boyle’s SM is a mediocre film by Hindi film standards, which is not even worthy of becoming a hit at the box-office, especially if an Indian had made it. The 8 Oscars is a clear indication that Hollywood filmmakers and producers want to enter the Indian film market, sadly, everyone is overlooking this aspect. Remember how Indian beauties suddenly were winning Miss World and Universe pageants left, right and centre when the West wanted to enter India’s beauty products’ market??? And just like Indian Awards Function, even the winner has to perform on stage to get an award (in lieu of payments for performance) at the Oscars was very evident when A R Rahman had to run inside to get ready to perform for his second Oscars.
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March 7, 2009
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Why do we love to lick the Western World? I really fail to understand the logic behind such a callous approach towards our own countrymen and love for the white skin. The immediate revenge saga of brother killing the don is taken from Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s super-hit film PARINDA (1989). The characters of Jamal, his brother and Latika replicate PARINDA’s Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, who rise from Mumbai’s footpath. Wonder of wonders, PARINDA was even India’s official entry for the 1990 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film Category… but it never won any Oscars then, while Danny Boyle’s efforts in copying Hindi film fetched him 8 Oscars. Totally unbelievable! Is this really the HIGHEST STANDARD of the most coveted award for any filmmaker in the world?
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March 7, 2009
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If an Indian had made SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE… the critics would have shouted aloud and pointed out that it was a lift from such and such Hollywood, Korean or other movies. We, Indians are so much infatuated with the WHITE SKIN even today, that we will never dare to lift a finger at them, why???? Are they really superior than us in any ways? And the saddest part is that the Indian media went berserk rejoicing SM’s win as if an Indian filmmaker has made the film. If an Indian had made SM, it would have never got positive reviews, instead it would have hardly even sustained at the box-office for more than two weeks, courtesy Film Critics.
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March 7, 2009
My friend wrote the CORRECT REVIEW OF SM's OSCARS success:
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IF AN INDIAN HAD MADE ‘SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE’…
Is Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE really worthy of 8 Oscars? Well, I happened to see the movie just last night (1st March 2009), that too, since it was on cable TV. I thanked my stars for having saved my ticket money in a multiplex. While I was watching the movie, I could relate to all the earlier Hindi movies (scene-by-scene & dialogue-by-dialogue and not forgetting the characters) having being made since the last four decades… sadly not even a single Indian (so-called intelligent breed) critic ever wrote that Danny Boyle lifted the plot from our old Hindi movies… Pity and a shame!
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March 4, 2009A very extra ordinary film. Oscar 'Best Picture'...It shows us the difficulty in life living in slum. And how desperate one can be just to survive!
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February 25, 2009In the picture title "slumdog millionaire" is the one of the best story.. i like tis movie so much..you can see the real faithful and courage in it .. Danny Boyle's creative direction...i recommend every 1 who not watch the movie..2 enjoy this movie...go n watch it..in this movie i like the 3 kids...they r very talented in tis this small age....their acting is really cute...i like all the actors who act as jamal....it was awesome..that y tis movie wins the oscar...this is an inspirational movie ...last but not least...ar rahman music n songs are FANTASTIC..keep it up..
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February 25, 2009..this is a must see movie..its really great and very inspirational..the story is really great..
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February 20, 2009
I liked the movie...I watched it twice...then it dawned on me...SDM is not about winning the 20 million by a poor boy (rags to riches)...SDM is not about boy meets girl, boy loves girl and boy gets girl...SMD is about sibling rivalry..ala Kane & Able...Salim bullies Jamal all through even taking his girl and using her to satisfy himself, not even bothering to hide and do it discreetly...therefore for the want of originality SDM lost out in my vote.
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February 18, 2009slumdog millionaire ... is a wonderful film ...you can see the real faithful and courage in it .. all actors besid the kids were very interisting ... this film telling you that there is a hope in this life .. don't worry and be happy ... just fallow your heart and let it be ..
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February 13, 2009this is the greatest movie ever. this is an inspirational movie which gives us the way to think positive and keep going on, on the right track sure one day we will achieve our goals.. and one must see this movie ...
great love story ...
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February 4, 2009If there was any film I would without hesitation tell a friend to go see, that film would be “Slumdog Millionaire”. Not only is it truly an original film, it has one of the most memorable sequence of scenes involving a young boy that has ever been captured on film. I won’t spoil this sequence of scenes, but I will say it involves this young boy named Jamal, an outdoor toilet, and movie star in a helicopter. Intrigued? The young stars of this film really do shine bright as do all who perform in this film.
The slums of Mumbai (formally known as Bombay) is the setting for this film a love story “Slumdog Millionaire”. The pains and the sufferings in these crowded slums are the backdrop for the characters and their life choices. Hate, murder, religion, class warfare, squalor, prostitution, pedophilia, robbery go into the make up of this story, along with personal values and true love.
A TV game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is the backbone of this film, written by Simon Beaufoy who’s credits include “The Full Monty” and “Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day”. Jamal, nine, a street urchin from the Mumbai slums along with his brother Salim, eleven, form two thirds of the Three Musketeers and a young female urchin Latika, nine, becomes the third, after their parents are killed in an attack by Muslim haters; they are set unbound and are left to fend for themselves in a world trended by greed and abusers of children. The three, while setting up a new home life under a tent, rummaging through a garbage dump, are taken into an orphanage run by a Fagin (Oliver Twist) type character, who with far worse intentions than Fagin, intentions of such darkness it’s hard to grasp the ugliness of his and his cronies abuses on children. Their lives take another tumble here and Jamal is forever trying to bring the three back together to rekindle happier more memorable times, the way Scout, Jem, and Dill would lament their summers lost to autumn in To Kill A Mockingbird.
We sit with Jamal in his contestants chair across from the emcee surrounded by a cheering audience on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, with an Indian accent, while he is being tortured by a corrupt police inspector wanting to know how he, Jamal, an illiterate Slumdog, would know the answers to difficult questions posed by the game shows producer. We watch his success in answering the questions one by one and we become more and more taken in to his plight to become a millionaire and we do this along with an Indian nation cheering each correct answer with smiles and well wishing. However his true intentions for being on the game show are revealed only at films end.
Through Jamal’s travails in growing up he has learned to read the people who would confront him with an uncanny ability to tell the truth while disarming his combatant. The games questions and Jamal’s answers are an allegory for his path toward love and peace and he must pass these tests one by one as presented, in order to arrive at his paradise.
This is a well told story, told by Director Danny Boyle who works with this cast brilliantly bringing out the absolute best in their performances’ making “Slumdog Millionaire” believable to a Western audience, all the while staying true to the Bollywood and Hindi style of film.
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January 22, 2009
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Do you know?I'm wishing would like to been thier at the theatre to watch it . & I'm 'll do it . Coz i'm would like to know about it funny & exciting with 'em actions on the film -
January 19, 2009In the picture title "slumdog millionaire" is the one of the best master piece. Every one must see this picture, what a perfomance of the boys brillient, we want to appreciate the diarector. what a editing.
