Overview from IMDB
User Rating:8.5/10 4,316 votes
Directors:Danny Boyle
Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)
Writers:Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) and
Vikas Swarup (novel)
Release Date:5 December 2008 (Italy) more
Genre:Crime | Drama | Romance more
Plot: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. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the 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. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love
Kossacks...
My reason for writing this diary is out of many reasons...
- There is huge media focus in India on this movie...since the movie kind of shows the other side of India (poverty side)...people want to know whether whatever shown in movie is the true Indian story or the usual show the "Indians as Poverty stricken poor b@#$$$ " story.
2.There is lot of good reviews that i can read in US media.So i want to know how many of kossacks have actually seen this movie and how many would like to see this movie...
3.Slum life in India: India actually is seeing tremendous growth on one side with the percentage of middle /upper middle and super rich families raising every year... on the other side there are still millions who live in poverty... (remember Indias population is 1100 million...i repeat 1100 million )..Its a must watch for those in India (who are not in slum ) and all those in other countries...just to know how fortunate we are...
4.A R RAHMAN...he is the music director for the movie...most or all of kossacks may know nothing about him...Kossacks AR RAHMAN is a music wizard..he is the bestttttttt music director of Indian film industry...Hear his songs...you would hear India... :)
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