SlumDog or SlumMillionaire

Yesterday evening i saw the movie “SlumDog millionaire” and to tell as an intro this is not a review of the movie and i just want to tell to my friend sorry that I’m not a  good person to give movie reviews, may be i can excel in code reviews . He asked during the interval of the movie ( even though there is no interval in the original print, the projectionist added a Interval slide in between) howz the movie and actually he used the word what is your review about the movie, as if I’m Rajeev masand whose opinion is considered by most of the people before they go to cinema theatres.

Oh, I should  tell this, my favourite scene in the movie was when the Memmon(who sends the kids for begging in the mumbai streets.I don’t know whether im spelling the correct name here) asks jamal (childhood of the hero) to sing the song “Darshan do” after giving him the inspiration to become professional. Kid start singing the song and when he completes the two words, he asks Memmon to give 50Rs and give him the reason that he is a professional. The best scene in the movie and involuntarily i started clapping along with others.

The scene where jamal guides the tourists in taj mahal and gives some funny explanations is too good. Over all the movie is enjoyable and it truly depicts the condition of the mumbai city. i didn’t enjoy that much, the scenes where jamal goes in search of his childhood friend latika and where Salims kills Memon using a revolver. This is not something common in India where kids, especially kids in slums get a Revolver. That was something exaggerated i should say and may be the director/script writer(Indian) used his western culture to create that particular incident.

And as somebody told its not an extraordinary movie, its a typical bollywood movie. I agree  to that, but it just got this fame because this is not a bollywood , but its an international movie, created by international crew. So no wonder it got this much fame. But i should appreciate the effort the crew especially the camera man, when he creates that perfect shots, by showing the kids travelling by sitting on the shock absorber where the compartments of the train is connected. Were the shots in which slums are shown in an aerial view,  perfectly showing the beautiful tajmahal through the camera. What made this movie different from the normal bollywood movie from my point of view is

1. There is no Item no: , that u can see atleast one per movie in most of the bollywood movies.

2.Exceptional camera work and showing those parts of mumbai cities life.

3. And for a bollywood movie to show the same story will take a minimum of 3 hrs where Danny managed it to make 2 hours and that too not missing core theme of the movie. Its pretty much covered in this short span.

I would recommend go and watch the movie at least once in the cinemas or else you are going to miss the background score of A.R.Rahman which is too good in the first scenes where the cops chase the kids. Also the title song of the  movie is catchy.

Just wants to qoute these notes here, which i prefer while watching a movie in Theatre.

1. I don’t encourage comments while watching the movie, especially while the movie is going on. Please don’t ask me review or opinion. i came to enjoy, not for analysis.

2. I prefer to watch the movie from the starting, right from where the certificate of the movie is shown.

3.I don’t want to miss any dialogues in the movie, which most of the time I misses when some near me ask me about the last dialogue. Most annoying.

4. Mobile phone ringing and their flashlights.

You are there for enjoying the movie and most of the time you are watching the movie for the first time in the cinema. So enjoy to the full extend.