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| Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  181 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Languages: English (Audio Description), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060002836439
ASIN: B001JJBC5S
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Danny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wildly energetic, Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother are orphaned as children, raising themselves in various slums and crime-ridden neighorhoods and falling in, for a while, with a monstrous gang exploiting children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teen, later goes on a journey to rescue her from the gang's clutches, only to lose her again to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster. Running parallel with this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, is the almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning every challenge on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," a strong showing that leads to a vicious police interrogation. As Jamal explains how he knows the answer to every question on the show as the result of harsh events in his knockabout life, the chaos of his existence gains shape, perspective and soulfulness. The film's violence is offset by a mesmerizing exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh Stills from Slumdog Millionaire (Click for larger image)
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well worth your time & money March 23, 2009
M. J. Bailey (Nottingham United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
So, you have an evening and £12 to spare.
Do you nip to the pub, or watch Slumdog ?
It's a tough call, but you won't regret opting for the movie.
I guess you'll know just about everything about it now it's won Oscars. Suffice to say there a parts in this film which are pretty horrible, so think twice before letting young kids watch it.
As for the rest, yes there are flaws, yes it's only one part of a country with a myriad of aspects, but you won't regret a single minute of it. And you can go to the pub tomorrow night with something interesting to talk about.
 Read the book instead! January 24, 2010
Alison Mallaghan (France)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First time i watched the film I gave it five minutes, the second time I stuck if for half an hour. No idea why it was so successful.
However the book, "Questions and Answers" is much better. No idea either why so many changes were made to the characters and the plot.
Read the book instead.
First half of the movie is just brilliant April 5, 2009
Thelma (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie showed the life in Mumbai so well, I was thinking about parts of the movie long after I saw it. The kids were fanastic actor/actresses and really made you believe that what you were watching was reall. I also liked the acting of the game show host. The way the film was directed and the music of the film was realistic and added extra meaning. Although I do not think it is all that realistic that Jamal would get on a show like Who wants to be a millionnaire given the population of India
But overall this is definitely a 5 star movie.
Fresh and original January 9, 2009
P. DATTA (Stockton on Tees, Teesside)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Slumdog Millionaire is a huge boost to the movie industry as it offers a fresh and original piece of film making.
The concept of "Slumdog Millionaire" is quite an interesting and fascinating to know about. After watching the movie, you can draw your own concluions. Well, it about a villager (Ram) raised in the slums of Mumbai, India. He is no ordinary child, as he has witnessed certains elements of Indian society ranging from religious conflicts, the widespread poverty, underworld activities, meeting Bollywood movie stars, the beautiful Taj Mahal and corruption. He relieves and share the experience in a quiz show "Who want to be a millionaire?, Indian version to win a million pounds. Does the experience prove valuable in the bid to win a huge jackpot? It certaintly does, but it creates suspiscion from the host ( Bollywood star Anil Kapoor), producers and the police. Ram is interograted by the police on the suspiscion of cheating. He battles to set the record straight with the police. That is the general gist of the story.
Slumdog Millionaire is a small budget movie, that achieved overwhemling sucess depsite low expectations. It has won numerous awards. Now it become a world movie brand. The point raised in the review is that you do not need an extravagant budget to be assured of success. It backfires and is an unnecessary waste of resources. Slumdog Millionaire used it resources effectively to provide a fine and original piece of filmaking with a well crafted plot, excellent characters and realism about society in the country. It portrays a dark side of the Indian society, which some viewers may find distrubing, but it offers a story to make you feel good with a touch of Bollywood magic, even though the movie is targeted at western audience. Overall. I really enjoyed the movie and it deserves the huge suceess.
 Excellent December 28, 2008
I. Sidhu (London, UK)
66 out of 81 found this review helpful
As a British born Indian, I wanted to see Boyle take on his version of a bollywood film with a good mix of his direction, all the charm that most of Indian films have. Result, a good directorial effort with an Indian version of City of God; far less brutal and replaces that sardonic hardship from City of God to the hopeful dreams of a young boy from the slums, very much a style common in Indian films today.
I've been to India before and seen what this film shows. It doesn't make it less dreary by sugar coating; that's not Boyle's style, he will show what is there and this film depicts India's culture, beauty, depression, poverty, lustre, greed, vengeance, corruption and all the moralities. You might be mistaken into thinking I'm being patriotic but the fact is Boyle has made a very good film, with keeping the actual Indian viewers of this film in mind. He has given it a love story like most Indian films while providing the action and tension that so many Indian-film lovers sitting on corner streets in Mumbai and Delhi will want to see.
I've lived in West London all my life and this is as close to showing India any European film has done in the last 20 years, that includes Bend it like Beckham and Ghandi.
West-Londoner-born, like myself, Dev Patel made his début on SKINS, and excellent UK drama series involving the life of College/Sixformer teens. A good choice since learning an language and accent is easier, but also a familiar face to those who watch Skins. The main focus is on him becoming more than he is, a subtle underdog story that doesn't boast of its pious superiority. He just wants to find the girl, Latika, he met when he was a boy, save her from poverty, prostitution and give her a life she deserves. Along with that, Dev's character known as Jamal Malik has a older brother Salim Malik who cares for money and the high-life, anyway he can get it. It's the Romulus and Remus tale with loads of morality. There are 3 actors per character of Jamal, Salim & Latika, each depicting the 3 main characters at different ages who are excellently cast, cute and innocent from the younger ages; to the older actors who play them as time and chance have made them into what they are now, with their knowledge of the world changing their day-to-day perceptions. Dev's character gets the chance to play on "Who wants to be a Millionaire" in India (Indian Version) with familiar host and legendary Indian actor Anil Kapoor. What could a slum-dog know of the world, more than most. He's graduating from the university of life.
Contrasting, political, brutal, and bitter-sweet. 8.5/10.
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