Slum Dog Millionaire Review

Just a general review. The genres have nothing to do with my film but I reviewed this movie because I wanted to get a feel of other movies that were different to mine in order to get mine to appear unique.

Information about slumdog millionaire

Directed by	Danny Boyle
Produced by	Christian Colson
Written by	Simon Beaufoy

Starring:

Dev Patel

Freida Pinto

Madhur Mittal
Anil Kapoor
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar
Tanay Chheda
Irrfan Khan
Rubina Ali
Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail
Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala

THE MONEY
Budget: $15 million
Box office: $377,910,544

Release date(s) 12 November 2008 (United States)9 January 2009 (United Kingdom)

Running time 120 minutes

Awards
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best Film), five critics choice awards, and four golden globes.

(The above information has been taken from Wikipedia as I wanted to include some factual information)

Slum Dog Millionaire is about a young boy (Jamal) from the slums of India, looking for a girl (Lakita) who he lost at a young age who he had fallen in love with. He goes on this search with his older brother (Saleem) who is shown to be evil and unkind and when Jamal gets older he loses his older brother leaving him on his own to search the slums of India for Lakita. Because of this, Jamal applied for a show called 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and got picked; he applied to get Lakita to see him on TV and come get him, he did not apply for the money. Jamal experienced a lot of things in his life of the slums therefore he got all the questions right on the hit TV show as the questions related to his life experiences. Jamal went on to win 20 million rupees which is equivalent to 236950.00 English pounds. After the show Lakita found Jamal by watching the show and they then reunited back together.


Good points
This movie was moving and sympathetic due to the logical story line.
I found that the soundtracks were put in at the right times in each scene, music is really important because this brings out the emotion and I think this was executed extremely well.
When I was watching this movie, I seen that the camera moved a lot. It moved when the characters moved, this was very precise and very well which fitted perfectly in each scene.