The Ultimate Slum Underdog
Posted by LMReviewsFeb 28
Welcome back!
It’s won an arm’s full of little male-silloutetted statues and gold globes, plus it drips of multiculturalness (did I just make that word up…J), of course, I had to write about it. The timing is perfect after having read Shobhan Bantwal’s Forbidden Daughter and preparing for her interview appearing in the forthcoming Sable Lit Reviews Newsletter, I had to take time to go see the Fox Search Light production of Slumdog Millionaire.
If you haven’t seen this movie, you have to go see it. You instantly fall in love with the little mischievous Salim and his little sweet but naïve brother Jamal from the minute you spot them running through the backstreets of Mumbai. Retracing the journey that leads Jamal to the contestant’s chair of India’s own Who Wants to be a Millionaire and seeing how he is able to ratchet up the rupee count, the movie shows how Jamal, a poor orphan is able to answer each question. Unexpectedly each answer relates to a moment in Jamal’s life which is truly clever and entertaining. In a time, when the world can’t get enough of the underdog, Slumdog Millionaire is a story about determination, not just in life but in love and in the sense that what is right will always prevail.
