A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
- Directors
- Writers
- Simon Beaufoy(screenplay)
- Vikas Swarup(novel "Q & A")
- Stars
Top credits
- Directors
- Writers
- Simon Beaufoy(screenplay)
- Vikas Swarup(novel "Q & A")
- Stars
- Won 8 Oscars
- 153 wins & 133 nominations total
Jira Banjara
- Airport Security Guard
- (as Hira Banjara)
Sunil Kumar Agrawal
- Mr. Chi
- (as Sunil Aggarwal)
- Directors
- Writers
- Simon Beaufoy(screenplay)
- Vikas Swarup(novel "Q & A")
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the 3 lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an auto-rikshaw driver to take the kids to school every day until they are 16 years old.
- GoofsIn one scene, when teenage Salim and Jamal are at the Taj Mahal, there is an external shot where a passing guard looks at the camera and says, "Stop filming. Stop filming." This was included purposely by director Danny Boyle for the sake of realism.
- Quotes
Prem Kumar: It's getting hot in here.
Jamal Malik: Are you nervous?
Prem Kumar: [audience laughs] What? Am I nervous ? It's you who's in the hot seat, my friend!
Jamal Malik: Yes, sorry.
- Crazy creditsSeveral of the cast perform a traditional Bollywood song and dance number set in a train station over the end credits.
- ConnectionsEdited from Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000)
- SoundtracksO... Saya
Written and performed by A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
Produced by A.R. Rahman
Published by K.M. Musiq Ltd./Imagen Music
Guitars by Sanjay Joseph
Additional Music Produced by Pallikonda Adrushta Deepak
Recorded at A M Studios Chennai
Music Engineers : Pallikonda Adrushta Deepak , Viviane & H. Sridhar
Song Mixed by Pallikonda Adrushta Deepak
Mixed at Panchathan Rec Inn Chennai
Review
Top review
Slum Dogma
Bless us all, Danny Boyle is in his prime. His "Sunshine" was lifeatleringly effective for me. He does things with a camera that are new, effective. He does better than others in providing a story foundation that fits the cinematic effects. He's visually clever. Its all more than enough for me.
Here, he appeases audiences too much for my taste in building a happy ending that has you walking out actually believing that you have seen a happy romance, worthy of Bollywood dance fantasy. This, I suppose is his answer to those who were confused by "Sunshine"s failure to support a common genre. Alas, a shame.
But the cinematic bits are more than enough.
Quite apart from the romance, what we have here is a (unique I think) synthesis of the film (here a TeeVee show) within that affects the film without plus a similar device of memory within. Here it is both a recall and a storytelling. The earlier in life we go, the more hectic and jagged the visions. It starts with one of the three "City of God" types of choppy editing and slowly bleeds into a normally paced picture. But that "City of God" stuff was mostly just in camera motion, and intended to contrast with the other two "personalities."
Here it is in the camera, in the movement of the actors and deeply in the editing. Its integrated and cinematic. Its brilliant. I think that is because of the way Boyle has digested the results of Dogma 95. There was a lot of pretentious stuff in that manifesto, but its core and ultimately its effect has been the opposite of the intended. The capture of the natural to be true has to involve intrusive craft, not lack of craft. Boyle, without notice has picked up Dogma graduates for his crew, more this time than usual.
The beginning of this film is true, powerful, full of life, energy. It is real. As it progresses and our hero enters and is accepted into TeeVee land it becomes more romantic and unreal, more like a Bollywood romance. It is more powerful than any from Bollywood because we assume it to be real from the beginning. Clever.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
Here, he appeases audiences too much for my taste in building a happy ending that has you walking out actually believing that you have seen a happy romance, worthy of Bollywood dance fantasy. This, I suppose is his answer to those who were confused by "Sunshine"s failure to support a common genre. Alas, a shame.
But the cinematic bits are more than enough.
Quite apart from the romance, what we have here is a (unique I think) synthesis of the film (here a TeeVee show) within that affects the film without plus a similar device of memory within. Here it is both a recall and a storytelling. The earlier in life we go, the more hectic and jagged the visions. It starts with one of the three "City of God" types of choppy editing and slowly bleeds into a normally paced picture. But that "City of God" stuff was mostly just in camera motion, and intended to contrast with the other two "personalities."
Here it is in the camera, in the movement of the actors and deeply in the editing. Its integrated and cinematic. Its brilliant. I think that is because of the way Boyle has digested the results of Dogma 95. There was a lot of pretentious stuff in that manifesto, but its core and ultimately its effect has been the opposite of the intended. The capture of the natural to be true has to involve intrusive craft, not lack of craft. Boyle, without notice has picked up Dogma graduates for his crew, more this time than usual.
The beginning of this film is true, powerful, full of life, energy. It is real. As it progresses and our hero enters and is accepted into TeeVee land it becomes more romantic and unreal, more like a Bollywood romance. It is more powerful than any from Bollywood because we assume it to be real from the beginning. Clever.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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- tedg
- Feb 2, 2009
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- Also known as
- Triệu Phú Ổ Chuột
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $141,319,928
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $360,018
- Nov 16, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $378,410,542
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1
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