Slumdog Millionaire

This is another movie that impressed me after the movie of "Kite Runner" in 2008. The way it films on how it reveals Jamal's life and the truth of how he won in the show "Who wants to be a millionaire".

I like how the movie started with this question, "Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it? " And the selection of answers are A: He cheated B: He's lucky C: He's a genius D: It is written"

And at last before the movie end, the answer is D. Where Destiny is written. I really like this part where the story tells the destiny of 3 different kids who grew up in slums and the journey in reaching their destiny. A boy who is innocent and with a passionate heart towards his love and life. In order to get his favourite star's autograph, he jumped into the "shit pond" and ran without bothering how would people looked at him or laughed at him. But the photo with his favourite star's autograph was later sold by his elder brother, who willing to do anything in order to get a penny for living. While another little girl, who follow the fate that dominating her life. Because of Jamal's love, she once again pursued her dream to be with Jamal.

Before watching this movie, I really have no idea of what is "slumsdog". And it's hard to believe that this kind of slums life really exists in our world. How poor they are and how cruel of reality could takes life for granted. I feel bad when watching how these little boys struggle in their life just for a living and how cruel it was where the child were being used by the child snatcher, especially when the other kids lost their precious eyes in order to earn double of begging value.

And the most valuable part of the movie is the cast of the younger stars are eventually from the slums in real life.

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. The movie was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best Film), five Critics' Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes.

The little boy who played as youngest Jamal in the movie, Ayush Mahesh khedekar, was reluctant to take off his suit after collecting their Oscar triumph. He doesn't want to return to his life at a dirty and poor slums.

While his costars remain in the Mumbai slums nearly three months after their collectiv e Oscar triumph, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar walked the red carpet in Cannes.

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Ayush, Rubina Ali (younger Latika) and Azharuddin Ismail (younger Salim) played the three main characters of the film at their youngest. Since the Oscars, Rubina and Azharuddin have returned to their life in the slums, with Rubina's house flooding with sewage and her father supposedly trying to sell her, while Azharuddin has gotten sick and had his home demolished. Rubina's father was arrested for allegedly attempting to sell her for USD $290,000. The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. - Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Here are some news of how the Slumdog Millionaire stars return to reality after the film.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2302756.ece