If you haven’t heard of Slumdog Millionaire by now, odds on you must have been shipwrecked on some remote island somewhere - the film has won no less than eight Oscars, including Best Motion Picture, as well as seven BAFTAs.
Based on a novel by Vikas Swarup, the film follows Jamal (Dev Patel), a teenager from the slums of Mumbai who enters the Indian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ After being arrested for cheating he tells police officers his life story, in an attempt to explain how he knew the answers.
Transitions between the past and present could have made the story complicated and jittery, and it is a testament to Simon Beaufoy’s screenplay that is not the case. The plot is compelling, though predictable – the love story between Jamal and Latika (Freida Pinto) in particular – and gives an eye-opening view of life in India’s slums.
The trailers do not do this movie justice. I was expecting to see a romanticised and unmemorable film. I was wrong. Slumdog Millionaire is a classic that deserves every one of the awards it has been given.
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