Slumdog Millionaire....

The movie is good. No doubt. The scene where the youngest Jamaal jumps into shit holding the god's picture is both beautiful and disgusting at the same time. To some extent the magic tale seems believable also. I mean don't look at the story as an ordinary boy's extraordinary tale but look at it like an extraordinary tale with ordinary players. The movie begins with easily one of the better Rahman compositions of O ..Saaya with the rapping also extraordinary. The camera work is superb with little slumdogs jumping from atop the roofs into the maze of Dharavi and the police constable desperately chasing them.But with these and a few other moments of brilliance the movie seems a good movie,not a brilliant movie which IMDB rates with an astounding score
of 8.7 at 34 all time great,better than movies like Apocalypse Now or Requeim for a Dream!.

Saurabh Shukla does justice to a regular fat police constable but again the language seems out of place. Maybe because its a little difficult to imagine Desi brownies speaking the gorra language with non chalance. Afterall movies like Blood Diamond and other Africa based movies dont seem awkward as we don't really know how a black native african would look like speaking his own language and how different it will be to speaking English.But the moment you see,no no hear Dev Patel and the thick British accent he speaks with, it starts to move from the uncomfortable to the dislike zone. When you make a movie of this repute ,you should take care of these finer details. Jamaal speaks English, I swollow that but where does the accent come from ???? Irrfan Khan had no scope in his role so I wont talk about him. Anil Kapoor playing the host of the game show came across as a dark conceited person which was exactly what he was supposed to. But at places he overdid his bit like the scene where Jamaal walks into the show and Prem mocks him for being a chai wala.
The explanations for knowing the answers seem a little laughable and it seemed as if the scenes of riots, children forced to beg, and prostitution had to be included for the sake of an audience which wants to see this and will appreciate the movie only if you feed them what their stereotypes want them to see. Some have compared the movie to Cidade de Deus (City of Gods) which talks about the slums of Rio De Janerio but the comparison would be an insult to City of Gods. Why,you can understand only if you have seen City of Gods.
The movie should not be dumped as it has been by people like Priydarshan and the others for the director Danny Boyle did seem to make a genuine effort. He could not be successful is a different issue. None the less he gave us a decent movie and the world the music of Rahman at an unprecedented level.