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| Title | Slumdog Millionaire |
| Price | £9.68 |
| Manufacturer | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Director | Loveleen Tandan |
| Director | Danny Boyle |
| Actor | Saurabh Shukla |
| Actor | Rajendranath Zutshi |
| Actor | Freida Pinto |
| Actor | Dev Patel |
| Actor | Anil Kapoor |
| Review | The dvd has a good story and shows a great deal of back ground on the lifestye of India's poor and in particular that of life in Mumbai. The dvd was delivered in the promised timescale. |
| Review | I love this film. Great story, great acting and wonderful jaw-dropping scenery. It is worth getting on Blu-Ray for this alone and the extras include interviews with the director and you see how they casted for the different characters' ages. |
| Review | ...but not, in my opinion, as great as its hype.
The smiley happy cover does nothing to portray the film and its grim reality of life in the slums of India. Watch it - it's a good film and it's a lot better than the "feel good movie" strapline would have you believe. Oh, and it's a 15 for a good reason - don't let the little ones watch it. |
| Review | I saw this at the cinema and quite enjoyed it, but I always judge a film on its replay value and having watched it a second time it just didn't have any impact and I have to admit to being quite bored at times. As others have said the film is beautifully shot and should be conmmended for it, the acting by the unknown kids was particularly good, I didn't find dev patels acting that convincing but others seem to think it was great.
At its heart this film is a cliched love story with all that that entails i.e boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again and they live happily ever after. And inbetween he just happens to win who wants to be a millionaire having coincidently learnt all the answers through his own life experiences in the indian slums. I guess it doesn't help that I am totally bored with the 'who wants to be a millionaire' show in general. I just don't get how they deemed this to be oscar worthy both in terms of acting, story, and emotional impact. To me any film that wins |
| 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 t |