Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Verdict: An interesting insight of India's ugly side, with typical Hindi movie happy ending

This multiple Oscar-winning isn't bad after all.

But I believe it's also a bit overhyped, and the reason why it won so many awards was because of its touching story (in a way) and the insight into the ugly side of India, which many westerners may not be aware of.

Story wise, you can say it's a Hindi-English movie with 55-45 blend.

In a simpler term - it's a Hindi movie repackaged in English flavour (art direction, cinematography, video editing and even the language)

Therefore, you can see the unexplainable destiny by Jamal and Lathika, and the happy ending dancing scene, with people coming out of nowhere, dancing together.

I think the initial intention of the movie production team is to film something special, in flavour of Indian, to please the Asian - but they didn't expect this movie to win so many prizes.

What's more, it's actually a British movie, that had won majority of the big Oscar awards (in America)

I must say the video editing is good & the storyline is smooth - this is something very different from ordinary British movie (slow paced and you really need to pay attention to it)

But if you ask me to choose between Slumdog Millionaire & Benjamin Button, I'd choose Benjamin Button, reason being Benjamin Button is more deep, ability to give you open space of imagination...

For Slumdog Millionaire, I guess it's not hard for Asian to understand the pain of poverty, and that the media attention given to India's poverty is so far, on the two kids featured in the movie ??!

That, is the reason why I said this movie is overhyped.

But you should give it a watch, during this economy hard time - at least you can imagine you yourself becoming a millionaire and yes, the heartwarming ending is good.

Rating: 8/10