Slumdog wins glory, ready for more

Updated on: 12 January,2009 10:10 AM IST |
Khalid A-H Ansari | smdmail@mid-day.com

Slumdog Millionaire, the highly acclaimed feel-good film about a Mumbai slum boy's inspirational journey to fortune on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire television programme is expected to sweep to international film glory at today's Golden Globes

million-dollar smiles: Slumdog Millionaire stars Freida Pinto and Dev Patel at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) annual tea party in California, yesterday. The nominations for the BAFTA
awards will be announced on January 15. pic/ap

Last Friday, the film, directed by Train-spotting director Danny Boyle, was awarded the Critics Choice award in Los Angeles for best young actor Dev Patel, the relatively unknown 18-year old actor- son of Kenyan-born Indians, who plays a beggar boy.

The film, which Boyle made for an estimated budget of just $15 million, also won best director, best writing, best composer and best picture awards, beating movies with larger budgets such as Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Shot in the slums of Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire has received rave reviews in Western countries and is expected to win a few Oscar awards, as well, this year.

The Wall Street Journal calls the film "Movie Heaven ... A Soaring, Crowd-Pleasing fantasy". The movie critic of 2UE awards it "10 out of 10" and Margaret Pomeranz of At The Movies describes it as "Absolutely Amazingly Wonderful".

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone says the film is "Brimming with Humour and Heartbreak, What I Feel For This Movie Isn't Just Admiration, It's Mad Love" and London's News of the World has called it the "Feel-Good Film of the Decade."

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