There are many things that jump out at you in Slumdog. The first is the amazing cinematography director Danny Boyle utilizes to show the scale of the slums and India as a whole. It's almost like a travel video from hell. There's also the performances of the two leads, Patel and Pinto. I've already heard about the numerous offers these two great young actors are getting. In Slumdog you know that Jamal loves her, but you can never really gauge her feelings toward him. Does she love him or not? That's the answer that you die to find out as he film progresses and Pinto plays it up, never letting her hand be seen until the time is just right. Going beyond the two leads there are a pair of performances that are even more amazing. The two children that play the young Jamael and Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar) were outstanding. I was blown away by the performance they give us in this picture. I'm still in awe over these two kids that atced rings around most of todays adult Hollywood talent.
Slumdog Millionaire seems to have developed an either love it or hate it audience out there. People I talk to seem to be split 50/50 on whether this was as good a film as the Academy would have you believe. It's one of the gems of 2008, a real standout in a year that had its good and had its bad. Did it deserve the Oscar? You can't really answer that because does nay film ever deserve the Oscar. It does earn a place as one of the best films of last year.
for review of slumdog millionaire : http://babusyed.blogspot.com/2009/03/colours-of-slumdog-and-millionaire.html
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