Re: [arr] The Best Picture winner arrives on DVD!
also out in blue ray dvd! can buy from www.audiorec.com Add DVD to cart : £12.95 Add Blue-Ray DVD to cart : £18.95 15% V.A.T will apply to all the UK and EU Customers. Starring: Irfan Khan, Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel & Freida Pinto Director: Danny Boyle From: $ Pavan Kumar $ To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:00:50 PM Subject: [arr] The Best Picture winner arrives on DVD! http://www.411mania .com/movies/ dvd_reviews/ 100120 The DVD Dissection: Slumdog Millionaire Posted by Chad Webb on 03.31.2009 The Best Picture winner arrives on DVD! How does it stack up? Dev Patel/Tanay Chheda/Ayush Mahesh Khedekar: Jamal Malik Anil Kapoor: Prem Kumar Freida Pinto/Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar/Rubina Ali: Latika Irrfan Khan: Police Inspector Madhur Mittal/Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala/Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail: Salim Saurabh Shukla: Sergeant Srinivas Directed By: Danny Boyle with co-director Loveleen Tandan Written By: Simon Beaufoy Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 2008 DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009 Running Time: 2 hours R for some violence, disturbing images and language. The Film Now that Slumdog Millionaire swept most of the categories it was nominated for at this year’s Oscar ceremony, I was able to watch the film again on DVD, and let my gripes rest. I must be honest. In my news report and my weekly rants on the podcasts, whenever I mentioned this movie, it was all negative. I still feel it was far from the best film of the year, but I did genuinely enjoy myself when I saw it for the first time. I strongly considered decreasing my rating, but no matter how much I disagreed with the amount of statues it took home, the film was indeed well made and thoroughly compelling. The following is my original review. For the majority of moviegoers all over the world, seeing the real India is not common on the big screen. Occasionally a film is released, but rarely does its popularity increase enough to show people what the country is actually like. Slumdog Millionaire reveals India in its true form, the beauty and the ugliness. This is an adventure of the highest caliber, and a pinnacle for Director Danny Boyle. It will agitate a wide range of emotions deep within you to the surface. You will smile, clench your fists, turn your head in fear, and maybe even shed a tear or two. It is a joyously unique take on an electrifying story. As Slumdog Millionaire opens, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) has already won 10,000,000 rupees on the Indian version of the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. We the viewers are even asked a question as one would be as a contestant, but I’ll leave that for you to discover. Jamal grew up as a boy from the slums of Mumbai, and would be on the run most of his life. How could he be answering all these questions correctly when those of higher education had never attained that level? He must be cheating. To prove this, the Police Inspector (Irfan Khan) and his Sergeant interrogate and torture him to dig out the truth. He claims he just knew the answers, and proceeds to express various instances in his life which relate to the questions he received. This journey takes him through many adventures with his brother Salim, numerous villains, and the love of his life Latika. The manner in which Slumdog Millionaire is woven together is what makes the story so enthralling and entertaining. The questions become stories, and the stories act as a tale from childhood to that of a young man still searching for his impossible romance. The plot threads lace around one another in such a glorious and organic way that the suspense becomes maddening, and that is a good thing. The characters we encounter along Jamal’s path to the chair make a lasting impact because of what they mean in terms of the money he is building and the advances in difficulty. You’ll be surprised at how much you remember since this is divided into sections, but those sections uncoil as one fine piece of work. This is a movie that is sure to make strides with luring more viewers into watching a story with subtitles. It has that in common with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Pan’s Labyrinth. To be honest, this includes many scenes with the cast exchanging in English, but a huge chunk is communicated in Hindi subtitles, albeit very creative and colorful ones, and this could easily serve as an introductory film for those contemplating that leap into enjoying a full film in a different language. This will attract people of any language because its themes are universal: rags to riches and love. Singling out specific actors in this picture is not easy since the three main characters of Jamal, Latika, and Salim are played by three different performers of varying ages. And everyone possesses chemistry like a unit. If anyone is deserving of individual praise it is Dev Patel, who portrays the older Jamal, and
[arr] The Best Picture winner arrives on DVD!
http://www.411mania.com/movies/dvd_reviews/100120 The DVD Dissection: Slumdog Millionaire Posted by Chad Webb on 03.31.2009 The Best Picture winner arrives on DVD! How does it stack up? Dev Patel/Tanay Chheda/Ayush Mahesh Khedekar: Jamal Malik Anil Kapoor: Prem Kumar Freida Pinto/Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar/Rubina Ali: Latika Irrfan Khan: Police Inspector Madhur Mittal/Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala/Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail: Salim Saurabh Shukla: Sergeant Srinivas Directed By: Danny Boyle with co-director Loveleen Tandan Written By: Simon Beaufoy Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 2008 DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009 Running Time: 2 hours R for some violence, disturbing images and language. The Film Now that Slumdog Millionaire swept most of the categories it was nominated for at this year’s Oscar ceremony, I was able to watch the film again on DVD, and let my gripes rest. I must be honest. In my news report and my weekly rants on the podcasts, whenever I mentioned this movie, it was all negative. I still feel it was far from the best film of the year, but I did genuinely enjoy myself when I saw it for the first time. I strongly considered decreasing my rating, but no matter how much I disagreed with the amount of statues it took home, the film was indeed well made and thoroughly compelling. The following is my original review. For the majority of moviegoers all over the world, seeing the real India is not common on the big screen. Occasionally a film is released, but rarely does its popularity increase enough to show people what the country is actually like. Slumdog Millionaire reveals India in its true form, the beauty and the ugliness. This is an adventure of the highest caliber, and a pinnacle for Director Danny Boyle. It will agitate a wide range of emotions deep within you to the surface. You will smile, clench your fists, turn your head in fear, and maybe even shed a tear or two. It is a joyously unique take on an electrifying story. As Slumdog Millionaire opens, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) has already won 10,000,000 rupees on the Indian version of the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. We the viewers are even asked a question as one would be as a contestant, but I’ll leave that for you to discover. Jamal grew up as a boy from the slums of Mumbai, and would be on the run most of his life. How could he be answering all these questions correctly when those of higher education had never attained that level? He must be cheating. To prove this, the Police Inspector (Irfan Khan) and his Sergeant interrogate and torture him to dig out the truth. He claims he just knew the answers, and proceeds to express various instances in his life which relate to the questions he received. This journey takes him through many adventures with his brother Salim, numerous villains, and the love of his life Latika. The manner in which Slumdog Millionaire is woven together is what makes the story so enthralling and entertaining. The questions become stories, and the stories act as a tale from childhood to that of a young man still searching for his impossible romance. The plot threads lace around one another in such a glorious and organic way that the suspense becomes maddening, and that is a good thing. The characters we encounter along Jamal’s path to the chair make a lasting impact because of what they mean in terms of the money he is building and the advances in difficulty. You’ll be surprised at how much you remember since this is divided into sections, but those sections uncoil as one fine piece of work. This is a movie that is sure to make strides with luring more viewers into watching a story with subtitles. It has that in common with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Pan’s Labyrinth. To be honest, this includes many scenes with the cast exchanging in English, but a huge chunk is communicated in Hindi subtitles, albeit very creative and colorful ones, and this could easily serve as an introductory film for those contemplating that leap into enjoying a full film in a different language. This will attract people of any language because its themes are universal: rags to riches and love. Singling out specific actors in this picture is not easy since the three main characters of Jamal, Latika, and Salim are played by three different performers of varying ages. And everyone possesses chemistry like a unit. If anyone is deserving of individual praise it is Dev Patel, who portrays the older Jamal, and sits in the millionaire’s seat with the face of a kid who has gone through hell and back, yet has never given up on his dreams. The most notable name in the cast is Irfan Khan, who has been developing a solid reputation after supporting roles in such terrific films like The Namesake, The Darjeeling Limited, and A Mighty Heart. Most of this journey is experienced right along with Jamal, but it is important to think from the Inspector’s point of view as well
