Slumdog Millionaire

Finally had the chance to rent the movie and check it out. I always like Indian Movies, but this flick is directed by Danny Boyle along with a co-director from India named Loveleen Tandan.

And what is up with the news I have been hearing about, of the child actor loosing a home, and a parent in real life. I figure it could be some child exploitations just to make some money by films. And for that reason, it took me awhile to see the movie. But when I watch the movie, I thought the movie was one of the best rented movie I've seen this year. The movie is good man, the soundtrack is also cool. They picked the right person to chose soundtracks for this film. About the child actors. I also heard the child actors weren't even real actors but real kids who were coach to act. It seems as though Hollywood took that stories from the slums and made something out for themselves. Just like that one pimp dude who Jamal shot in the head to save his brother Salim's girl of becoming a prostitute. The pimp acts kindly at the kids first and then asked them to sing, and if they sing good, he'll put them to sleep and takes away their eyes just so he can pimped them better by singing in the street begging for rupees.

The setting of the movie is also real. I heard muslims are being treated bad in India by the hindus. Muslims being burned alive and all that. There is this scene in the flick where a mob of armed hindus invades the muslim's squatter community, and a little muslim boy was painted blue and dressed up like Rama (hindu god) holding a bow and arrows. A part of the scene when the main character named Salim were telling the story to the police chief on how he coincidentally knew the answer for the question of what Lord Rama uses as weapon, which was a bow and arrows. Salim was framed as a cheat due to his uneducated background and his roots from a slum of India. The movie is basically how he knew the answers from the Indian version show "Who Want To Be A Millionaire". I guess every country has it's own version. Philippines also has their own.


It also reminds me of this one movie maid by Mira Nair titled Salaam Bombay also a story of kids from the streets of Bombay now known as Mumbai.