Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Directors:

Danny Boyle
Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)

Writers:

Simon Beaufoy (screenplay)
Vikas Swarup (novel)

Release Date:

23 January 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Love and money... You have mixed them both.

Plot:

A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

Plot Keywords:

Question | Cheating | Slum | Millionaire | 2000s

Awards:

Won 8 Oscars. Another 114 wins & 62 nominations

Cast

Dev Patel	...	Older Jamal
Saurabh Shukla	...	Sergeant Srinivas
Anil Kapoor	...	Prem
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Director (as Raj Zutshi)
Jeneva Talwar	...	Vision Mixer
Freida Pinto	...	Older Latika
Irrfan Khan	...	Police Inspector
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail	...	Youngest Salim
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar	...	Youngest Jamal
Jira Banjara	...	Airport Security Guard (as Hira Banjara)
Sheikh Wali	...	Airport Security Guard
Mahesh Manjrekar	...	Javed
Sanchita Choudhary	...	Jamal's Mother
Himanshu Tyagi	...	Mr Nanda
Sharib Hashmi	...	Prakash
Virendra Chatterjee	...	Slum Man
Feroze Khan	...	Amitabh Bachchan
Sunil Kumar Agrawal	...	Mr Chi (as Sunil Aggarwal)
Virender Kumar	...	Man on Fire (as Virender Kumar Gharu)
Devesh Rawal	...	Blue Boy
Rubina Ali	...	Youngest Latika
Ankur Vikal	...	Maman
Tiger	...	Punnoose
Chirag Parmar	...	Young Arvind
Nazneen Shaikh	...	Baby
Farzana Ansari	...	Latika's Friend
Anupam Shyam	...	Old Villager
Salim Chaus	...	Ticket Collector
Singh Shera Family	...	Family in Train
Harvinder Kaur	...	Family in Train
Narendra Singh Bhati	...	Family in Train (as Narendra Singh)
Tanay Chheda	...	Middle Jamal (as Tanay Hemant Chheda)
Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala	...	Middle Salim
Satya Mudgal	...	Taj Mahal Guide
Janet de Vigne	...	Ada / Mrs MacKintosh
William Relton	...	Peter
David Gilliam	...	Clark
Mia Drake Inderbitzin	...	Adele (as Mia Inderbitzin)
Kinder Singh	...	Driver
Christine Matovich Singh	...	Opera Singer
Thomas Lehmkuhl	...	Opera Singer
Siddesh Patil	...	Older Arvind
Najma Shaikh	...	Woman at Brothel
Saeeda Shaikh	...	Woman at Brothel
Alka Satpute	...	Woman at Brothel
Tabassum Khan	...	Woman at Brothel
Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar	...	Middle Latika
Sitaram Panchal	...	Dance Teacher
Nigel Caesar	...	Hotel Security Guard
Ajit Pandey	...	Javed's Goon
Kedar Thapar	...	Javed's Goon
Amit Leonard	...	Javed's Goon
Rajesh Kumar	...	Javed's Goon
Sagar Ghopalkar	...	Javed's Goon
Pradeep Solanki	...	Javed's Goon
Abdul Hamid Sheikh	...	Javed's Goon (as Hamid Sheikh)
Dheeraj Waghela	...	Javed's Goon
Shruti Seth	...	Call Centre Instructor (as Shruti S Seth)
Arfi Lamba	...	Bardi
Taira Colah	...	Nasreen
Varun Bagri	...	Call Centre Trainee
Ankur Tewari	...	Dave
Anjum Sharma	...	Operator
Madhur Mittal	...	Older Salim
Sarfaraz Khan	...	Autorickshaw Driver
Syed Fazal Hussain	...	Autorickshaw Driver (as Syed Hussain)
Umar Khan	...	Autorickshaw Driver (as Umer Khan)
Imran Hasnee	...	Javed's House Doorkeeper
Homai Billimoria	...	KBC Contestant
Udayan Baijal	...	Cricket Commentator
Sandeep Kaul	...	Floor Manager
Rufee Ahmed	...	Double for Irrfan Khan
Rhea Lawyer	...	TV Reporter
Deepali Dalvi	...	Dancer at Javed's Safehouse
Anisha Nagar	...	Dancer at Javed's Safehouse
Farrah Shaikh	...	Dancer at Javed's Safehouse
Mamta Sharma	...	Dancer at Javed's Safehouse
Neha M. Khatarawalla	...	Dancer at Javed's Safehouse
Tanya Singh	...	Newsreader
Anand Tiwari	...	Newsreader
Faezeh Jalali	...	Newsreader
Meghana Jhalani	...	Newsreader
Rupali Mehra	...	Newsreader
Anju Singh	...	Newsreader
Saurabh Agarwal	...	Call Centre Manager
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mark Boucher	...	Himself - South African Cricketer (archive footage)
Andre Nel	...	Himself - South African Cricketer (archive footage)
Yuvraj Singh	...	Himself - Indian Cricketer (archive footage)
Sachin Tendulkar	...	Himself - Indian Cricketer (archive footage)
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Danny Boyle
Loveleen Tandan		(co-director: India)

Writing credits
Simon Beaufoy		(screenplay)
Vikas Swarup		(novel "Q & A")

Produced by
Christian Colson	....	producer
François Ivernel	....	co-executive producer
Ivana Mackinnon	....	associate producer
Cameron McCracken	....	co-executive producer
Tabrez Noorani	....	line producer
Paul Ritchie	....	co-producer
Tessa Ross	....	executive producer
Paul Smith	....	executive producer

Original Music by
A.R. Rahman

Cinematography by
Anthony Dod Mantle

Film Editing by
Chris Dickens

Casting by
Gail Stevens
Loveleen Tandan

Production Design by
Mark Digby

Art Direction by
Abhishek Redkar

Set Decoration by
Michelle Day

Costume Design by
Suttirat Anne Larlarb

Makeup Department
Virginia Holmes	....	hair designer
Virginia Holmes	....	makeup designer
Natasha Nischol	....	hair designer
Natasha Nischol	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Rajeesh Dham	....	assistant unit manager
Lucie Graves	....	post-production supervisor
Sanjay Kumar	....	unit production manager
Pravesh Sahni	....	production supervisor
Chanpreet Singh	....	assistant unit manager
Jennifer Wynne	....	production manager: UK
Bill Daly	....	post production executive: Warner Bros. (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Raj Acharya	....	first assistant director
Avani Batra	....	second assistant director
Shyam Kaushal	....	action director (as Sham Kaushal)
Yugandhar S. Narvekar	....	third assistant director
Sonia Nemawarkar	....	second second assistant director
Rohit Ved Prakash	....	first assistant director: second unit
Tanya Singh	....	second assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Manoj N. Bhoyar	....	assistant art director
Sachin Dabhade	....	property master
Sushil Kumar Giri	....	graphic designer
Kathy Heaser	....	graphic artist
Praveen Kumar Hendway	....	graphic designer
Brendan Houghton	....	storyboard artist
Aditya Kanwar	....	stand-by art director
Srinivas Konda	....	property master
Wahid Shaikh	....	assistant art director
Andrew Tapper	....	graphic designer
Marc Knapton	....	computer graphics (uncredited)

Sound Department
Hugo Adams	....	foley editor
Niv Adiri	....	sound effects editor
Shalini Agarwal	....	additional sound
Shalini Agarwal	....	location sound: second unit
Shalini Agarwal	....	sound assistant
Ben Barker	....	sound effects editor
Peter Burgis	....	foley artist
Ricky Butt	....	foley artist
Roberto Cappannelli	....	sound re-recording mixer
Rachel Carberry	....	assistant adr recordist
Jayesh Dhakan	....	adr recordist (Hindi version)
Gillian Dodders	....	supervising dialogue editor
Thomas Dodgson	....	consultant: dolby film sound
Amrit Pritam Dutta	....	production sound mixer
Danny Freemantle	....	assistant sound editor
Glenn Freemantle	....	sound designer
Glenn Freemantle	....	supervising sound editor
Steve Haynes	....	adr recordist
Lee Herrick	....	dialogue editor
Vijay Kumar	....	adr editor
Adam Mendez	....	foley recordist
Resul Pookutty	....	adr mixer
Resul Pookutty	....	sound mixer
Richard Pryke	....	sound re-recording mixer
Vivek Sachidanand	....	additional sound recordist
Tom Sayers	....	co-supervising sound editor
Tom Sayers	....	sound designer
Adam Scrivener	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer
Jack Stew	....	foley artist
Ian Tapp	....	sound re-recording mixer
Kevin Tayler	....	adr recordist
John Soukup	....	sound transfer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Shivananda R. Mohili	....	special effects supervisor (as Shivananda Mohili)

Visual Effects by
Matthew Bristowe	....	digital lab producer: MPC
Stefan Ciupek	....	digital camera supervisor
James Cundill	....	online editor
Nick Drew	....	visual effects production manager: CIS London
Paddy Eason	....	digital compositor: CIS London
David Emeny	....	digital compositor: CIS London
Alec Feegrade	....	film recording
Adam Gascoyne	....	visual effects supervisor
Matthew Hangar	....	software support
Warwick Hewett	....	assistant vfx producer: Rushes
Simon Hughes	....	compositor: CIS London
Tom Kemplen	....	visual effects editor
Matthew Lawrence	....	motion graphics
Brad Le-Riche	....	motion graphics
Begoña Lopez	....	digital lab producer: MPC
Hugh Macdonald	....	senior digital compositor: CIS London
Collette Nunes	....	visual effects editor: CIS London
Roma O'Connor	....	visual effects executive producer
Jonathan Opgenhaffen	....	matte painter: CIS London
Jesse Parkhill	....	digital compositor
Matthew Redding	....	visual effects artist: DEAD
Becky Roberts	....	visual effects producer
David Wahlberg	....	digital compositor: CIS London
Shamsher Walia	....	second telecine colorist: Pixion
Pat Wintersgill	....	on-line editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Telfer Barnes	....	first assistant camera
Udita Bhargava	....	assistant camera
Arjun Singh Bhurji	....	key grip
Dharmendra Bhurji	....	key grip
Bidhan Chanda	....	best boy grip
Stefan Ciupek	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Mulchand Dedhia	....	gaffer: India
Mrinal Desai	....	cinematographer: second unit
Vishal Jain	....	first assistant camera
Sunil Khandpur	....	Steadicam operator
B. Durga Kishore Kumar	....	second assistant camera
Ishika Mohan	....	still photographer
G. Monic Kumar	....	first assistant camera
Thomas Neivelt	....	gaffer
Kevin Nunes	....	still photographer
Gyanendra Pratap	....	digital media Manager
Satish Venkataramana	....	second assistant camera

Casting Department
Kelly Valentine Hendry	....	casting associate
Swapnil Kore	....	casting assistant
Rhea Lawyer	....	casting assistant
Tom Reed	....	casting assistant
Meredith Tucker	....	additional casting: North America (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Riyaz Ali Merchant	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Udayan Baijal	....	assistant editor
Matthew Bristowe	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Paul Byrne	....	dailies supervisor
Celia Haining	....	assembly editor
Tom Kemplen	....	second assistant editor
Jaime Leonard	....	on-line editor
Begoña Lopez	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Alexandra Montgomery	....	post-production coordinator
Vivek Pratap	....	assembly editor
Catriona Richardson	....	first assistant editor
Ejaz Shalkh	....	first assistant editor
Prashant Sharma	....	telecine dailies colorist
Anuradha Singh	....	assembly editor
Jean-Clement Soret	....	colorist

Music Department
Niv Adiri	....	music editor
Gulzar	....	lyricist
Noel James	....	music coordinator
Pravin Mani	....	arrangement & programming
Aditya Modi	....	music engineer
Simon Mortimer	....	music associate
Srinivas Murthy	....	music assistant (as Srinivasa Murty)
Srinivas Murthy	....	vocal supervisor (as Srinivasa Murty)
A.R. Rahman	....	music producer
Andy Richards	....	original score mixer
Tanvi Shah	....	playback singer
H. Sridhar	....	music engineer
Viviane	....	music engineer

Transportation Department
Bhawani Singh	....	transportation manager (uncredited)

Other crew
Nazar Abbas	....	director: behind-the-scenes
Maxima Basu	....	assistant: director
Paresh Behera	....	production accountant
Thom Berryman	....	media transfer engineer
Aarti Bhatia	....	production coordinator: Mumbai
Neil Calder	....	completion guarantor: Film Finances Inc.
Stefan Ciupek	....	post production consultant
Tonia Cohen	....	script clearance
Matt Curtis	....	title designer
Monal Dutia	....	film courier
Navit Dutt	....	location manager
Gaia Elkington	....	assistant to Danny Boyle and Christian Colson
Ollie Gatehouse	....	post production assistant
Juliette Howell	....	script editor
Deepak Jaitely	....	production accountant
Polly Johnsen	....	studio executive (uncredited)
Sam Lavender	....	developmental editor: Film4
Diarmuid McKeown	....	production executive
Tushaar Mehra	....	technical consultant
Tariq Mirza	....	production legal
Debbie Moore	....	finance controller
Chirag Nihalani	....	key production assistant
George Pank	....	business affairs: Pathe
Raakesh Parekh	....	tech support head: Pixion
Gyanendra Pratap	....	media management
Rajesh Rajilal	....	production assistant
Neil Sadwelkar	....	technology manager: Pixion
Diraj Sarode	....	assistant business manager: Pixion
Nuvendra Singh	....	script supervisor (as Nikki)
Nuvendra Singh	....	script supervisor
Rakesh Singh	....	production coordinator
Asheet Thakur	....	business manager: Pixion
Ian Thomson	....	publicist
Vishal Tyagi	....	armorer
Helen Varty	....	assistant: Tessa Ross
Longiness Fernandes	....	choreographer: "Jai Ho" dance sequence (uncredited)
Mahendra Singh	....	assistant location manager (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Celador Films (presents)
• Film4 (presents)
• Pathé Pictures International

Distributors

• Fox Searchlight Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• International Film Distribution Consultants (2008-2009) (Non-USA) (theatrical)
• Chantier Films (2008) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• Distribution Company (2009) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• FS Film Oy (2009) (Finland) (theatrical) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
• Londra Films P&D (2009) (Bolivia) (theatrical)
• Serenity Entertainment International (2009) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (Canada) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (Canada) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Ablo (2009) (Romania) (all media)
• Argentina Video Home (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (2010) (Argentina) (DVD) (Colección Mejor Película) (double feature with 'The Hurt Locker')
• Argentina Video Home (2011) (Argentina) (DVD) (3-disc Ganadores del Oscar)
• Argentina Video Home (2013) (Argentina) (DVD) (Ganadoras del Oscar Collection)
• Audio Visual Enterprises (2009) (Greece) (all media)
• Bazuca Films (2009) (Chile) (all media)
• Bontonfilm (2009) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• Castello Lopes Multimedia (2009) (Portugal) (all media)
• Channel 4 Television Corporation (2010) (UK) (TV)
• Cinéart (2008) (Belgium) (all media)
• Cinéart (2009) (Netherlands) (all media)
• EDKO Film (2009) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• Europa Filmes (2009) (Brazil) (all media)
• Film1 (2009) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Filmax (2008) (Spain) (all media)
• Fox STAR Studios (2009) (India) (all media)
• GAGA (2009) (Japan) (all media)
• Golden Village Pictures (2009) (Singapore) (all media)
• Home Box Office (HBO) (2009) (USA) (TV)
• ION Television (2012) (USA) (TV)
• IPA Asia Pacific (2009) (Thailand) (all media)
• Icon Film Distribution (2008) (Australia) (all media)
• Lev Films (2009) (Israel) (all media)
• Lucky Red (2008) (Italy) (all media)
• Mediasoft Films (2008) (South Korea) (all media)
• Monolith Plus (2008) (Poland) (all media)
• Monopole-Pathé (2008) (Switzerland) (all media)
• Myndform (2009) (Iceland) (all media)
• Pathé Distribution (2008) (UK) (all media)
• Pathé (2009) (France) (all media)
• Phars Film (2009) (Middle East) (all media)
• Pinema (2008) (Turkey) (all media)
• Prokino Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (all media)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (2008) (Scandinavia) (all media)
• Twin Pics (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Viva International Pictures (2009) (Philippines) (all media)
• Vizion (2009) (Hungary) (all media)
• Volga Film (2009) (Russia) (all media)

Special Effects

• CIS London
• Rushes Post Production (end credits)

Other Companies

• Pille Filmgeräteverleih  camera equipment provided by
• A.M. Studios  music recorded at (as AM Studios)
• AP  titles
• ARRI Media  camera and grip equipment provided by
• Anvil Post Production  foley recording
• Bonded Services  film storage
• Dead  post-production services
• Fatts  post-production script services
• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Fuji Photo Film  motion picture film supplied by
• Gearbox Sound and Vision  Avid Adrenalines and Avid Unity LanShare LP supplied by
• Gearbox Sound and Vision  editing equipment
• Goldcrest Post Production London  adr recording (as Goldcrest Post Production)
• HireWorks  film equipment
• India Take One Productions  production services
• Intelligent Media  international monitoring agency
• Interscope Records  soundtrack
• J & E Post Production  post-production consultant
• KM Musiq Studio  music recorded at
• Lights & Grips Equipment Hirers India  grip and lighting equipment
• Modern VideoFilm  post-production facilities
• Moving Picture Company (MPC)  digital film mastering
• Nirvana Studio  music recorded at
• Out of Eden  score mixed at
• P S TECHNIK  camera equipment provided by
• Panalux  lighting consumables
• Panchthan Recording Inn, Chennai  music recorded at (as Panchathan Record Inn)
• Pinewood Studios Group, The  sound re-recording
• Pinewood Studios  sound re-recording
• Pixion  telecine services
• Professional Negative Cutting  negative management
• Smart DV  editing equipment
• Sound 24  sound editing and post production
• Taunus Film Synchron  German dubbing

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence, disturbing images and language

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Hindi | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #44838) | UK:15 | Ireland:15A | Australia:MA | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Czech Republic:15 | New Zealand:R13 | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Norway:11 | India:A (cinema release) | Finland:K-15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:NC-16 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Netherlands:12 | South Africa:13V | Brazil:16 | South Korea:15 | Peru:14 | Argentina:16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Germany:12 | Japan:PG-12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Belgium:KT | Mexico:B | Iceland:12 | New Zealand:R16 (DVD rating) | France:U | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Chile:TE

Filming Locations:

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company:

Celador Films

Trivia:

The film used a prototype Digital Cinema Camera from Silicon Imaging. When used in Mumbai, there were SI technicians on set constantly to deal with any problems the prototype had, of which there were many.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The movie shows news reports from Live India, a television channel. The plot says that is 2006, but Live India was launched in 2007. It was previously called Janmat.

Quotes:

[after being beaten by a cop for vandalizing a car]
Jamal Malik:[to an American tourist couple] You wanted to see a bit of the real India?
Jamal Malik:[angrily to the cop] Here it is!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Office: The Seminar (#7.13)" (2011)

Soundtrack:

Ringa Ringa

One of the best cinema offered in 2008

Danny Boyle has come up with some interesting cinema, certainly defining himself as someone above average. What he achieves in "Slumdog Millionaire" is transcend the line between inspiration and a miracle, awakening an emotional connection to the very special element great cinema can deliver. The packages might have changed, and the contents are more controversial and maybe a bit more tied to reality, certainly taking us to an exotic local, teaching us that our world extends beyond our freeway and limited perception of how more than the other half of the world's population has to deal without certainly preaching to us.

The tale of two brothers' lives is told to us through episodic flashbacks tied to an episode of India's "Who Wants to be a millionaire?". At first, the story introduces one of the brothers as being the subject of a very strong interrogation to find out whether he is being truthful about some knowledge that might be relevant to the game. As he answers the questions, we discover that this young man's life story might be more interesting than we originally expected.

There is an element of freshness in the way the story is presented, as we accompany Jamal through his life odyssey from a young child in the slums to a man who is determined to save those he loves. There are some strong emotions in the film, and Boyle's direction keeps the film dynamic and engaging.

Prepare yourself to be overtaken by emotions as varied as joy, pity, happiness, anger, revulsion, surprise, and an exhilarating conclusion rarely seen in movies anymore. This film has made me grateful to be alive and that we still have people in cinema like Boyle who understands the power and beauty of the medium. He knows that the perfect mix of a great story and the respective imagery can provoke unforgettable memories in its audience.