Slumdog Millionaire Review

Poster Movie:

Movie Rating : 8.5

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy. The film, shot and set in India, follows a young street beggar who appears on a game show and wins, exceeding people's expectations and raising suspicions from the game show host and law enforcement. Following screenings at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire had a limited release on 12 November 2008 and is scheduled to have a wide release on 27 November 2008.

Cast Movie :

Dev Patel as Jamal Malik, the protagonist. Boyle considered hundreds of young male actors, though he found that Bollywood leads were generally "strong, handsome hero-types", not the personality he was looking for. Boyle's 17-year-old daughter pointed him to the British television Skins, which starred Patel. The actor was cast in August 2007.Freida Pinto as Latika, the girl with whom Jamal Malik is in love. Pinto was an Indian model who had not starred in a feature film before.Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar, the game show host. Madhur Mittal as Salim Irrfan Khan as the Police Inspector

Plot :

An Indian former street child from Mumbai is a contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. He had gone onto the game show to reach his missing childhood sweetheart, who he knows watches the show religiously. When he gets to the second to last question, he is suspected of cheating.

Music, MP3, Soundtrack

Composer A. R. Rahman planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. He has stated he was aiming for "mixing modern India and the old India" with the music, but that the film and soundtrack "isn’t about India or Indian culture. The story could happen anywhere." Boyle, who "hated sentiment" and told Rahman "Never put a cello in my film", wanted a "pulsey" score. Rahman appreciated that Boyle liked how Indian films mix music, saying the director wanted "edgy, upfront" music that did not sound suppressed. Composing pieces to fit the images, he noted "there’s not many cues in the film. Usually a big film has 130 cues. This had just seventeen or eighteen: the end credits, beginning credits." Describing the music as one of the parts he liked most in the film, Boyle wanted to include M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" from early on in production on the score, which appears along with an original track Rahman composed, "O...Saya," featuring Arulpragasam. M.I.A., who Rahman described as a "powerhouse" and Boyle hailed as "a gift" to the soundtrack gave brief film notes on some scenes to Boyle upon request during editing. The soundtrack for the film will be released via N.E.E.T. — available online everywhere on 25 November, and at finer record stores on 23 December.

Movie Release :

In August 2007, Warner Independent Pictures and Pathé acquired the American and International rights respectively to distribute Slumdog Millionaire theatrically. Though Warner Independent Pictures paid $5 million to acquire rights to the film, the studio was hesitant about its commercial prospect. In August 2008, the studio began searching for a buyer to relieve its overload of films at the time. Halfway through the month, Warner Independent Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures entered a pact to share distribution of the film with Fox Searchlight buying in a 50% stake. Slumdog Millionaire premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2008, where it was positively received by audiences, gaining "strong buzz". The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2008, where it was "the first widely acknowledged popular success" of the festival,winning the People's Choice Award.
Slumdog Millionaire debuted with an "impressive" limited release on 12 November 2008, grossing $350,434 in 10 theaters, a "strong" average of $35,043 per theater. In its second weekend, it expanded to 32 theaters and made $947,795, or an average of $29,619 per theater, representing a drop of only 16%. In the 10 original theaters that it was released in, viewership went up 16%, and this is attributed to strong word-of-mouth. The film will experience a wide release on 27 November 2008.