Slumdog Millionaire, the most-talked about British-made film in years and which is set in Mumbai, won four Golden Globe awards. Slumdog Millionaire won all four nominations awarded at the Golden Globes including picture, best director (Danny Boyle), screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and score (A.R. Rahman). The film also won five of the six awards it was nominated for at the Critics Choice Awards. It is now expected it will be the movie to beat at the forthcoming Academy Awards.
The biggest cheer is for A.R. Rahman, who became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe, for the best original score. The film has a very good crop of Bollywood/Indian/Asian origin artists. Some of them (apart from the cast) are Alka Yagnik, Ila Arun, Palakkad Sriram, Madhumitha, Suzanne D'Mello, Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Alisha Chinai, Tanvi Shah, Sukhwinder Singh, etc. Cast includes Dev Patel (Jamal Malik), Freida Pinto (Latika), Anil Kapoor (Prem Kumar, the game show host), Irrfan Khan (Police Inspector), Saurabh Shukla (Constable Srinivas), Mahesh Manjrekar (Javed / Raja), Ankur Vikal (Maman), Madhur Mittal (Salim, Jamal's brother), and a host of child stars.
The story, based on the best-selling novel “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup, is of Jamal Malik, a dirt-poor orphan from Mumbai who stuns India when he reaps success on the country's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati?). Jamal, played by the British actor Dev Patel, draws on his life experiences, many of them shockingly brutal, to answer the game show's questions, aiming to stay on air for as long as possible in a bid to win back the love of his life.
As in Indian films there is a song-and-dance routine. Also about one-third of the dialogue is in Hindi with English subtitles. It is reported in terms of revenue per screen Slumdog Millionaire broke all records when it was released in the US in November 2008.
It is expected that Slumdog Millionaire will prove a massive popular success when it will be released in India on January 23.
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