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Slumdog Millionaire - Hindi Film
Slumdog Millionaire is part of the new wave of Hindi Films to make it to American in recent years. Film action takes place in India and presents the story of Jamal Malik, an uneducated young orphan from Mumbai's slums, which participates in the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Want to be a billionaire?) In order to get closer to his childhood love, Latika. The show captures the whole world through his knowledge, with each question Jamal makes the connection with an accident in his life answering correctly and without realizing it draws to the prize of 20 million rupees, but the game is interrupted because he is suspected of cheating and arrested.
Although it is an Indian film, it surpassed patterns of a typical Indian movie, perhaps due to the British director Danny Boyle. Love story between the two young teenagers, the relationship between Jamal and his brother, as boys survive after being orphaned and other happenings in their lives make you smile and at the same time give you tears.
Slumdog Millionaire actors are very young and have the ability to capture your attention from the beginning of the film and make you feel connected and part of the action, that is perhaps because two of the children who play in the film even grew up in the slums of Mumbai. The main role is held by Pentel Dev, a young actor just 18 years, though he starred in TV series "Skins", better known in Britain, he now has Slumdog Millionaire fame worldwide. His goal is to looking for more demanding roles and hopes to start alongside some of the hot Hindi Actresses like Amrita Rao.
The film has enjoyed great success in the world and this is proved and the awards he has won 4 Awards Critics' Choice Awards and 4 Golden Globes, including Best Drama "also was nominated for 11 Awards and 10 Oscars.