Sunday, January 04, 2009

Slumdog Millionare

I don't watch many hollywood movies. Agree they have terrific performances and complex plots that cannot erase themselves from your memories. But Slumdog Millionaire is much more than that. It is a movie about a guy's search for his love interest. However, the action he takes takes him down the complete memory lane and finding solutions to the questions that have the potential to change his materialistic life which he cares the least. An elder brother who is more business oriented, yet loves his brother but can almost kill him (probably for a revenge, am not sure) and a 3rd musketeer who has surrendered to the circumstances so many times that she does not know what to do next.
The answer to each question asked to the protagonist lies in various instances of his life. The instances that are plainly terrific probably highlight the lives of slum people in Mumbai. Each and every incident mirror the lives of common or below common man in modern day India...be it living in slums or communal riots or Indian BPO industry or the rackets of begging/prostitution or simple human emotions such as jealousy or love.
Slumdog millionaire is all about the survival and the numerous challenges that come in the way to live a life of almost no goals except one that is also not certain. But everything is "Written".

1 comment:

Sudhir said...

The best part about this movie is its screenplay. I loved the way the interest of the viewer is sustained.

However, I could not but notice some obvious flaws in the movie... but let that not spoil the feel good factor now :)