Same old "Slumdog Millionaire" formula.

Rating: 1/10 (26 February 2017)

Personally, I never liked Slumdog Millionaire and this movie does a great job at recreating and frustratingly stretching the same idea. Want an Oscar? Stretch upon the filth of India. And this movie is depressing. IMDb ratings have never failed me, this is the first time it did. The story has nothing but 3 stages- getting lost, getting adopted and finding home. It is also a badly researched movie with technical loopholes. One, it shows Calcutta during winters. Durga Puja is not during that time of the year. When the lost kid arrived in a train, he came from one of the northern states which are much colder, but no sweater or jacket! Dev Patel drew a radius of 1200km from Calcutta. If he (Or the director) applied any brains, he could have narrowed his search by eliminating the Sourthern states where the native language is not Hindi. Saving him the pain that was so harped on in the story. I am sure if I sit down to watch the movie again, I will find numerous more. But not interested!