By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, January 23, 2009 - 10:47 IST
3 of 4 people found this review helpful Slumdog presents you a simple tale of survival, love and longing set in Aamchi Mumbai. The film romances Mumbai without enhancing its beauty or degrading its character, it makes you love the city, just the way it is.
By Buzz18, January 23, 2009 - 11:34 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a former slum dweller Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) who finds himself in the hotseat of the gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
By Rediff, January 23, 2009 - 11:36 IST
3 of 4 people found this review helpful The film tells us the story of this very Jamal Malik, who at 18 has cleaned up to become a call-center chaiwallah capturing India's imagination by occupying the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hot-seat with unbelievable accuracy.
By Hindustan Times, January 24, 2009 - 09:18 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is a reminder that you may turn your eyes away from the half-dead street girl begging for a rupee. But she's there, be it in India Shining or Dimming.
By BBC, January 24, 2009 - 09:21 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Slum kid cum call-centre chaiwala, Jamal (Dev), is about to answer the last crucial question to win the jackpot on the television show, Kaun Banega Karod Pati - India's version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' game show.
By Planet Bollywood, January 24, 2009 - 09:22 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful The film sets a benchmark on all levels. The adapted screenplay by Simon Beaufoy is suspenseful and intriguing.
By Glamsham, January 24, 2009 - 09:23 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Slumdog... is a movie about a boy from the slums who lands on the hot seat of the game show. The movie is told in the questions asked and the answers given by Jamal.
By Businessofcinema, January 24, 2009 - 09:24 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Slumdog Millionaire is one of those layered films, at the surface of which is this glorious love story.
By Indiaglitz, January 24, 2009 - 09:26 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful It's merely not the expositions of Mumbai and Vikas Swaroop's 'Q&A' that makes 'Slumdog Millionaire' an interesting film.
By AOL, January 24, 2009 - 09:28 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful It is really hard to find a fault in Slumdog Millionaire / Slumdog Crorepati.
By Indya, January 24, 2009 - 09:30 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Jamal Shaikh (Dev Patel) is a boy who has struggled his way up from the slum life and is now working as a chai walla in a call centre. He happens to make it to the show Who Wants to be a Millionaire and surprisingly for the entire country he not only makes it but goes on to answer each question correctly thereby winning the grand prize.
By Apunkachoice, January 24, 2009 - 09:33 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful Saving the answer for the last, let it be said at the outset that Slumdog Millionaire is a kind of movie that is made only once in a while.
By Movietalkies, January 24, 2009 - 09:36 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful The film hooks you in from the very beginning and one is drawn irresistibly into the love and life of Jamal and Latika (Freida Pinto) and the lost brother Salim (Madhur Mittal).
By Zee News, January 24, 2009 - 09:37 IST
1 of 2 people found this review helpful 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the story of a slum dweller Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) who finds himself in the hot-seat of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'.
By Allbollywood, January 24, 2009 - 09:38 IST
2 of 5 people found this review helpful There is a very thin line dividing slick from scum. Slumdog Millionaire doesn't stop to make those subtle distinctions. It moves at a frenetic pace creating a kind of sweaty energy that one sees in marathon runners in the last lap of their journey.
By Now Running, January 24, 2009 - 10:13 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful "Slumdog Millionaire" is "Trainspotting" on steroids. It's a beefed-up look at the scummy side of Mumbai, bewildering in its obsession with discovering life in the slums of Dharavi as being a facsimile of that drain-inspector's report that Mahatma Gandhi had discovered in American journalist Katherine Mayo's account of India in "Mother India".
