Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British-Indian drama movie based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A and directed by Danny Boyle. The movie has a different story from the book.[7] It follows a homeless Mumbai resident who becomes a contestant for the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Danny Boyle |
| Produced by | Christian Colson |
| Screenplay by | Simon Beaufoy |
| Based on | Q & A by Vikas Swarup |
| Starring | Dev Patel Freida Pinto Madhur Mittal Anil Kapoor Irrfan Khan |
| Music by | A.R. Rahman |
| Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Pathé Eros Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom[2][3][4] India[5] |
| Language | English Hindi[1] |
| Budget | $15 million[6] |
| Box office | $377,910,544[6] |
Awards
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards. It won the following eight:
- Best Picture, Christian Colson
- Best Director, Danny Boyle
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Simon Beaufoy
- Best Cinematography, Anthony Dod Mantle
- Best Original Score, A. R. Rahman,
- Best Original Song – "Jai Ho", Music by A. R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar (lyricist)
- Best Film Editing, Chris Dickens
- Best Sound Mixing, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, and Ian Tapp
It was also the highest-grossing film ever of an Indian film.
Cast
- Dev Patel as Jamal Malik
- Ayush Mahesh Khedekar as toddler Jamal
- Tanay Chheda as teenage Jamal
- Freida Pinto as Latika
- Rubina Ali as toddler Latika
- Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar as teenage Latika
- Madhur Mittal as Salim K. Malik, Jamal's elder brother
- Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail as toddler Salim
- Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala as teenage Salim
- Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar
- Irrfan Khan as Police Inspector
- Saurabh Shukla as Police Constable Srinivas
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Javed Khan
- Ankur Vikal as Maman
- Rajendranath Zutshi as Millionaire show producer
- Sanchita Choudhary as Jamal's mother
- Mia Drake Inderbitzin as Adele, an American tourist
- Siddhesh Patil as Arvind, blind beggar
- Shruti Seth as Call center instructor
- Arfi Lamba as Bardi
- Anjum Sharma as one of the Call center operators
Slumdog Millionaire Media
Danny Boyle directed the film
Freida Pinto with Dev Patel at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
The Slumdog Millionaire team at the 81st Academy Awards in the US
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Slumdog Millionaire - Cast and Crew". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Screen International. 6 September 2008.
- ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ Slumdog Millionaire. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/09/slumdog-millionaire-review-danny-boyle.
- ↑ NDTV (Jan 23, 2009). "Slumdog Millionaire - NDTV". Anupama Chopra. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ↑ Jeffries, Stuart (16 January 2009). "Author Vikas Swarup on Slumdog Millionaire" – via www.theguardian.com.
