Slumdog Millionaire
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Product Description
Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love?
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. 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. 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. 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)
Product Info
- Actor
- Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi
- Aspect Ratio
- 2.35:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Fox
- EAN
- 0024543574415
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0024543574415
- Feature
- TESTED
- Format
- NTSC, Widescreen
- Label
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Manufacturer
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Model
- 024543574415
- MPN
- FOX2257441DD
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- FOX2257441DD
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2009-03-31
- Running Time
- 120
- SKU
- DSHI70099
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Title
- Slumdog Millionaire
- UPC
- 024543574415
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 024543574415
- ASIN
- B001P9KR8U
- Sales Rank
- 2190
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