Product Description

A MUMBAI TEEN WHO GREW UP IN THE SLUMS, BECOMES A CONTESTANT ON THE INDIAN VERSION OF 'WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?'. HE IS ARRESTED FOR CHEATING & WHILE BEING INTERROGATED, EVENTS FROM HIS LIFE HISTORY ARE SHOWN WHICH EXPLAIN WHY HE KNOWS THE ANSWERS. 1/3 IS IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES-REST IN ENGLISH

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE
• Released on: 2009-03-31
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Features

• Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love? Run time: 120 mins

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Danny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wildly energetic, Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother are orphaned as children, raising themselves in various slums and crime-ridden neighorhoods and falling in, for a while, with a monstrous gang exploiting children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teen, later goes on a journey to rescue her from the gang's clutches, only to lose her again to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster.

Running parallel with this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, is the almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning every challenge on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," a strong showing that leads to a vicious police interrogation. As Jamal explains how he knows the answer to every question on the show as the result of harsh events in his knockabout life, the chaos of his existence gains shape, perspective and soulfulness. The film's violence is offset by a mesmerizing exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh

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