Evaluation of Slum Dog Millionaire Film - Movie Review Example

The story is heartbreaking how he and his brother led an adventurous life, their hardships, their frequent encounters with local gangs. To everyone’s surprise each chapter of the story reveals the key to the answer of each question. The introduction of the character is extremely unexpected. The seven year old boy is listening to the howling of the crowd welcoming the stupendous actor Amitabh Bachan. He was destined to move through the dirt to get an autograph of Mr Bachan. Orphaned by the killing of his own mother in a Hindu Muslim riot, the seven-year-old boy of Dev Patel tries to make his living by joining in the gangs of professional beggars and at one time he turns traitor on his sibling.

The chai-wala who sells fragrant tea to call centre workers in Mumbai who after a series of hardships and adventures, at last seated on the television game, is now at the moments of grabbing the big prize. The struggle of the lower caste in economically developing Mumbai is well depicted through the life of the street boys. The screenplay by Simon Beaufoy which is slightly adapted from a novel by Vikas Swarup captures the flow of time and space, the childhood time and the grown-up times etc. The flow of life is exactly portrayed.

Cast in to the friendless world with another orphan Latika the three children make their way fighting against the reality of life. The story of his short but rich life unfolds in a series of flashbacks. It may be brutal to some foreign audience. But the events drag the spectators to the edge of appalling. After doing the roles as pickpockets, vendors, dishwashers and even guides to the tourists, it is Jamal that insists Salim return to Mumbai to find Latika. The young actors have done their roles beautifully.

They are appealing and sympathetic. The most remarkable thing about Slum Dog Millionaire is it a Bollywood film which has the sense of a typical Indian Cinema. It was shot on the street of Mumbai, the typical thickly populated place with full of tin-roofed huts.