Slumdog Millionaire

Date & Time: 14^th March 2009, 3.20pm show.

Cinema: TGV, Capsquare, KL.

Movie: Slumdog Millionaire

After weeks or months of anticipation waiting to watch the much talked about this Golden Award, BAFTA and Oscar winning movie finally I’ve succeeded in persuading my 3 other very patient friends (thanks to Ksya, Pza & Iza for making my weekend sweeter other than because of the ronda2 KL thingy) who sweet enough to bear with my fixation of watching Hindi/Bollywood based movies and sitting in the cinema hall and enjoy the movie thoroughly! Although at 1^st I was very worry with what would be their reactions, whether they will be able to stand the 2 hours, can they survive watching a ‘hindi’ movie’ because for all of them this is their foremost experience and etc but luckily they all loved it so all the worries have been swept away.

In the beginning the irritating sounds of crying comes from a kid for the first 10-15 minutes was driving me crazy, I believe no one like to be disturbed when we are in the middle of something we love or something that we paid! I think no one does.

The story is as simple as about from poor to rich, from slum to sweet life of rich and famous and from NOBODY to SOMEBODY. But what makes the essence reliable are the great job in the cinematography and screenplay as we never experienced those things faced by all the slums kid from living and breathing their life at the worst slum in the Asia, trained to be a ‘professional’ beggar and begin to be expose to the world of drugs, prostitution and crimes at a very tender age. What may not very ‘exact’ mood for me would be the language using by the kids which is English, I mean like who would feel the real pain if they sounded so well educated but in the other hand that actually showed how they adapt with the world around them. The flow of scenes between in the studio of the quiz show and in the jail and back to the flashback were brilliant, awesome without taking so many times of our for the dance scenes they replaces it with nice background music for each incident and the rap by MIA, the Lathika theme as well as the Mausam & Escape theme are like top of my playlist now.:) A.R.Rahman is the brain behind it, again as usual! Other than the great performance by the kids, Dev Patel and his brother in the movie, I don’t think others deserved to share the credit not even Freida Pinto. In a way I glad Shah Rukh didn’t accept the offer of the host character which later played by Anil Kapoor because at this stage I cant picture him in a negative role, I mean not in that cheap way. Danny Boyle has nailed it by brought the book; Slumdog Millionaire known as Q & A by Vikas Swarup to a great movie, I’m in the middle of reading of the book but I can feel it featured more about the genuine slum world.

Hats off as the story was engaging from the word go till the end, even the end credit with the Jai Ho dance was a treat because people tend to skip those thing when it actually were the backbone for this great work of art of story telling. What should I write that haven’t been written, what should I tell that haven’t been told so basically I’d summarise my P.O.V as the audience/movie buff/wannabe director. The true color of India in whole have been showed, or portrayed without have to be a hypocrite and yet doesn’t lessen its values, dignity, and the great or white side of it. Although the film shows that there are always the grey sides of everything but we have the power to make decision between what is right or wrong! Never blames others for the outcome of your future life as that will not make your life easier or simpler.

me,the movie buff :)