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Slumdog Millionaire

bombayWhat can I say about this movie?  Do you need a wake-up call?  Are you so deeply engrained in the American Culture that you have no idea how others around the world live?  You need to see this movie. 

Slumdog Millionaire hasn’t received a lot of popular advertising.  It’s people are overseas in India.  And yet this movie has made it thus far to our Theatres.  I promise you, if you see this movie, it will wake you up and open your eyes.  Go see it.  You may not have another opportunity. 

Slumdog Millionaire is a typical rags to riches story told in gritty Indian style.  The slumdog Jamal starts out latikalife after seeing his mother’s senseless brutal murder for being a muslin, in the garabage dumps of Mumbai.  He later is recruted and trained to beg for money from tourists.  His trainers seeks to maim him as a way to earn more money, and he escapes only to return to more peddling and begging as a small five year old child. 

This is a must see movie.  As soon as I read the reviews I knew I must see this movie, and I was not disappointed.  My dad saw the Movie with me and watched the entire movie AND remembered it the next day.  Remembering something 24 hours later is something Dad usually has a difficult time doing. 

jamal-malik1Slumdog Millionaire is very entertaining and interesting.  Did you know that India has it’s own version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”  It does, and our little Slumdog gives us a good bit of entertainment during two shows.  My rating is 9 out of 10 stars.  It is indeed that very good.  I hope you see it and enjoy the movie.