Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire



Cast: Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Frieda Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Saurabh Shukla

Director: Danny Boyle

Dharavi boy Jamal Malik, server "Chai" Keepers of the secrets is one of the ways. He has learned his wisdom on the streets, and he uses it to a millionaire.

Director Danny Boyle is the bare bones of Vikas Swarup's novel and the film turns into an electric, visceral, kinetic and solid-get-out entertainer. "Slumdog Millionaire" is "Salaam Bombay" on the speed. Only it is now called Mumbai.

Blood, sweat, tears. And that other bodily fluid-shit, know that nobody likes, least of all the mainstream press. Danny Boyle uses these elementary qualities, to Call Center "chaipau" Jamal (Dev Patel), and his "bizarre plausible" (in the beautiful phrase of one of the characters-) world, constantly teetering on the verge of collapse, constantly speaks of the K gumption and the people who live in it. And gives us a hero who is unlikely to be a metaphor for our time. Yes, Jamal can.

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To Latika (Freida Pinto), his childhood sweetheart, who is also a product of the sewage and the same line that he and his brother Salim from. Your journey to young adults, with many dangers, is not new for those who have seen Bollywood's tryst with slum children become homeless beggars blinded and maimed by cartels is a Hindi cinema of the oldest saddest stories, along with fresh virgins is ready to be deflowered by the highest bidder. Boyle invests old with a tropical welcome drink objectivity, and is ready to learn at work, his excessive joy to show his young urchin wallowing in human excrement is outdated Jamal disabled exuberance - the slumdog captures the smell and the moment.

When he first opens his mouth, the United Kingdom on the basis of "Desi" Débutants Dev Patel everything seems wrong, because he clipped cadences. But he is almost immediately in its groove, and, together with the wonderful young kids who play, the "younger self, is growing in the film is the climax: Jamal is vulnerable yet strong, the fragile skin peeling from the steel underneath. Pinto is real, and can keep him company. Irrfan Khan and Saurabh Shukla as hectoring police and Mahesh Manjrekar as the brutal "Bhai", fit into it Anil Kapoor, as the hosts of the Devious game show, turns in one of his vivid, precise performances. And AR Rahman's result is a triumph.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0DKHKVWwkg

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