Category: Cinema 31
Anyone see this film? It is a beautifully done movie, but one of those you really have to watch twice to really put everything together in sequence. It made me sad the way the lowest income Indians & orphans lived.
One of the child actors, after filming, was sold by her father because her fame could net the family more money.
When they show films like that, they really aren't kidding. The slums of India are very much a dangerous and harsh place to grow up as children and to try and make a living for yourself.
That said, fantastic film. Kind of a cliched "one turns good one turns evil" plot for the guys, but the overlying story is so well-shot and crafted.
Was it Rufina Ali who was sold? I was looking for updates on the child actors as they were promised housing at the completion of the movie. I believe the promise was materialized but the families weren't obeying their part of the bargain, which was to keep the children in school. One was missing, one of the boys, out of "sadness of his father dying of tuberculosis", and maybe it's better because tb is highly contagious. I can't imagine having kids at all if I really couldn't afford it & the child was going to be my meal ticket. This is the second Indian film I have enjoyed, the first director Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra".
i saw slumdog milionaire with video description which helped immeasurably with the understanding of th eplot and action. This was about a year ago, and i was sick in bed with larryngitis. i was so excited that i was yelling at the characters in this horrible hoarse voice.