Slumdog Millionaire

Finally, i've watched Slumdog Millionaire, the movie that's on my list since February 2009, and i only watch it now. Starring Dev Patel and Freida Pinto. I've been asking friends and reading media reviews on the movie, watched the Academy Awards awarding the movie many many Oscars for different categories.I thought it was a boring movie just by reading and watching and listening to the reviews, until i watched it, it's a 2 hour movie, i was "turned off" by the duration of the movie, coz Oscar winning movie are mostly - ARTSY

The movie began with Jamal Malik being tortured by a policeman, they thought he cheated on the game show "Who Want To Be A Millionaire" because he's a guy from the slums and people like him won't know answers to the questions that he answered correctly.

And he's one question away from winning the grand prize -20,000,000 Rupees. They took Jamal to the police station, and began questioning him how he know the answers to the questions on the show...and he explained it one by one...many many flashbacks to his childhood

I've watched this program on national television before...on NTV7, the Malaysian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, i remember the host used to ask contestants his golden question..."Adakah jawapan anda muktamad?"

Back to the movie, so we learned how Jamal met Latika, how Jamal's brother Salim made their life miserable, how they got seperated and reunite again...each flashback tell us how he knows the answers to the questions...i hate some of the flashbacks...some has really really sad and some violent scenes...

After telling the police how he know the answers, the police believed that he did not cheat on the show and escorted him back to the studio the second night for the final question! Jamal became an overnight sensation in India...an 18 year old telephone assistant becoming rich overnight, (reminded me of Susan Boyle) Whole of India was tuning in to the show...(this is the part of the movie which i really enjoyed, the climax and the only non-depressing part)The final question was from the storybook that he learned when he was a young child in school...but he did not attend school after some tragedy...so he did not know the answer...and he guessed the answer and won the grand prize...LOLEven the producers of the show was excited when he won the grand prize...LOLLike other any contestant on a reality show, i guess their expression are all the same - the couldn't believe look...and Jamal just won 20,000,000 Rupees!In the end, Jamal and Latika finally can be together after all the challenges and hardships they faced when they first met till the present...and a happy ending for an Indian movie calls for a Bollywood dance number...Jamal and Latika and hundred others bystanders dancing to the song "Jai Ho" at the CST train station...And they lived happily ever after