Hi everyone!This time I’m just going to tell a little about the movie Slumdog Millionaire. This movie won 8 Oscar’s this year, including best film and best director (Danny Boyle). It also won the best original song with Jai Ho of AR Rahman.
The plot of this movie takes place in Mumbai, India. It’s the story of Jamal Malik, the movie starts telling that he was 1 question away from winning 10 million rupees in a contest called Who wants to be a millionaire?. Everyone is confused as they don’t know how a boy from the Bombay slums could have reached till here as doctors, scientists and many others couldn’t pass the 1 million rupees question. Jamal is being questioned by a police officer and that’s when he explains all the events that happened in Jamal’s life, the ones in which he based to answer the questions.
Jamal and his brother Salim became orphans in a religious fight. They both run away from the place and in the way they find Lathika. Jamal and Lathika become very good friends. Sometime later, they are found by Maman who tells them that he will help them but really he was training them to beg. After finding out what will happen to them; Salim, Jamal and Lathika try to escape. The 2 boys manage to escape leaving Lathika behind. Many years had passed; Jamal and Salim went through many things. One day, Jamal and Salim return to the slums to search for Lathika. Salim kills Maman after finding Lathika. He and Jamal have a fight. Jamal leaves as Salim threatens him with a gun. After many years, Salim joins another criminal band and Jamal works at a phone calls company. There he finds Salim’s phone number and gets in contact with him again. Jamal stays with Salim for some days and at that time he meets with Lathika. She tells him about her life those days. He asks her to come away with him, he tells her to meet him the next day at the train station. The next day, she goes but Salim and the others prevent her from leaving. Jamal decides to enter the TV program -Who wants to be a millionaire?- just for Lathika to see him. Lathika, Salim and the others were taken to another place, there Salim thinks about all the mistakes he committed and gives Lathika his cell and tells her to escape. The program host was very angry and amazed with Jamal. Jamal had at last come to the 10 million rupees question, as he didn’t know the answer he decided to use the application of –call a friend-. That’s when he calls Salim but Lathika answers and she says that she doesn’t know and has never know the answer to the question of who was the 3rd musketeer. When they were young Jamal always told that he and Salim were Arthos and Porthos and that Lathika was the 3rd musketeer, whose name they never knew. Jamal just chooses an answer without being sure of it, as his only desire was to be with Lathika and not winning the game. Jamal wins the game and takes the 10 million rupees. Salim kills the criminal leader and himself. The movie ends when Salim is in the train station and he sees Lathika there.
Appa says that in India some people think that the movie isn’t as good as it shows the poor part of India now that it’s growing, while others think that this is also the reality so why not show it. In my opinion, I think that we should also know other things more than just the nice part of somewhere. The movie is very good and the time really goes fast watching the movie. I liked it.
