Slumdog Millionaire is a film by Danny Boyle, starring Dev Patel and Freida Pinto. The film was filmed in India, and is the story of how a young slum dweller uses his life experience to win a fortune on a televised game show.
Mon, 12 Jan 2009
"Slumdog Millionaire" has swept all four Golden Globe Awards it was nominated for including Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Director, and Best Film Sunday night in Los Angeles. Shot in Mumbai, the film tells a story of an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who goes on to win a staggering Rs.20 million (0,000) on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" game show. Accused of cheating, the boy defends himself against the authorities by narrating... Read Full Story
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The day after "Slumdog Millionaire" dominated the Oscars, the child actors from the film took a trip to Disneyland. For some of the children, like Rubina Ali (young Latika), the trip to Los Angeles was the first time she has left Mumbai or been on a plane.
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BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) – Rags-to-riches tale "Slumdog Millionaire" hit the jackpot at the Golden Globes on Sunday, winning four of the coveted awards including best film drama to give it a leg up in Hollywood's race for Oscars. "Slumdog," which tells of a young Indian man looking for love and competing for money on a television game show, also earned awards for director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and composer A.R. Rahman for best musical score. Boyle thanked the Hollywood... Read Full Story
"Slumdog Millionaire" wins 5 awards including best picture, at Thursday night's Critics' Choice Awards. "Slumdog" also won honors for director Danny Boyle, writer Simon Beaufoy, star Dev Patel and composer A.R. Rahman. "Slumdog Millionaire" wins 5 awards. The 66th annual Globes, the town's second-biggest movie celebration after the Academy Awards, returned to their somewhat boozy glory. Type rest of the post here Read Full Story
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) :- "If you did not see this Movie, then you do not really know what an outstanding and breathtakingly realistic movie means?" " Slumdog Millionaire" is probably "the most simplest, excruciatingly naked about India and naive in story telling" of most of the movies made in the entire history of Indian film making , but yet, it has captured the "Minds" of the whole world and it is on it's way to grab the 1st ever"Oscar" for the whole Indian movie and the crew... Read Full Story
In awards-magnet "Slumdog Millionaire," actors Dev Patel and Freida Pinto made a generation of jaded Americans believe in love. But when it came to life off-screen, the actors always maintained that there was nothing between them. Now, however, get ready to get charmed; rumor has it that Patel and Pinto are a real-life couple. Read Full Story
PRETORIA, Feb 20 (Reuters) - There's an irony behind
complaints that Oscar contender "Slumdog Millionaire" recycles
cliches about impoverished India: it's based on a book by not
only an Indian, but a high-level ambassador for the country. Vikas Swarup, whose novel "Q&A" became the basis for British
director Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches drama about a Mumbai slum
kid, is also India's deputy high commissioner to South Africa. Swarup penned the novel at the end of a diplomatic posting
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LONDON (Reuters) – Low-budget Indian drama "Slumdog Millionaire" swept the BAFTA film awards Sunday winning best film, director and five other categories, giving it another boost ahead of the Oscars...
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