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--- On Fri, 24/10/08, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [arr] Richard Corliss on SdM
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 24 October, 2008, 3:22 PM
True to
its roots, Slumdog ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an
all-out dance number, composed by Bollywood deity A.R. Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire
By RICHARD CORLISS
Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor in Slumdog Millionaire.
Directed by Danny Boyle. Screenplay by Simon Beaufroy, from the novel Q & A by
Vikas Swarup. With Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto and Anil Kapoor.
The director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Millions collaborates with the
screenwriter of The Full Monty and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — surely
we're in for some all-British shenanigans. But no, this is a
social epic set in modern India, when Bombay became Mumbai, and the new
techno-wealth contrasted ever more sharply with the crushing, enduring
poverty of the masses.
One young man, Jamal (Patel), has miraculously, or suspiciously,
spanned those two worlds. A tea server, or chai wallah, for a telephone
marketing company, he has won a fortune on the Indian version of Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire.
The show's host (Kapoor) is so skeptical of Jamal's ability to answer
the questions that he has policemen try to torture the truth out of the
lad. His explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan
in the company of his brother Salim (Mittal) and, not often enough,
with the winsome, consistently abused Latika. Salim is the type-A
troublemaker, the fighter and conniver, restless and reckless, and thus
the ideal complement to Jamal's caution, sensitivity and resilience.
These flashbacks constitute the body of a sharp, teeming, dark, very
romantic film.
As the boys forage through garbage heaps, get hooked in by
child-molesting Fagins and slip into lives of petty or flagrant crime,
you'll be reminded of Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen
Indian musical melodramas — which are more sanitized by far
but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are
just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee
of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is
the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to
its roots, Slumdog ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an
all-out dance number, composed by Bollywood deity A.R. Rahman. Despite
its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie
to celebrate.
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