"Slumdog Millionaire" is a totally welcome and very pleasant surprise. If 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. The acting in the film is very good from the entire cast. Three separate actors have to play the main character, Jamal, as well as his brother Salim. All three actors who play both characters do a great job. Even the younger actors show a great range, while none of the 6 actors have one particularly weak link of any kind. Much of the supporting cast must have been famous in India because many of the older men in the film just did a magnificent job. The love interest in the film, Latika, was believably gorgeous when the final actress began to play the older version of the girl. There is no specific actor in the film that I can look at and say was miscast.
It was a thrill seeking romance that brought warm feelings and immense danger all rapped up in one. The movie out shined all the "egotistical" movies out of the water, this my friend is the movie that isn't given all the hype it is suppose to receive.
This film teaches us never to give up, follow your dreams to happiness, always love and never hate anybody, be honest, work hard, remember your past but don't hold onto it, and to just be yourself.
I recommend this film to many.
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who 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; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.
