A creatively made film with outstanding performances.

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2014)

The three main characters include Jamal, his older brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and Latika (Freida Pinto). There were three actors behind each character; for when they were about 8 years, 15 years and then all grown up (I'm guessing the ages). And all of them, I must say, gave incredible performances.
I've been wanting to watch this film for awhile and I think I actually did watch a bit once, but didn't finish it for some reason. Also, I was unaware that this was based on a book, Q & A by Vykas Swarup.
Anyway, the director of this film juxtaposes scenes of the past and present stunningly. The audience is fed the information one by one and so it is more of showing us what happened rather than telling us along the way. This made it incredibly relevant for the audience as they knew what the characters had been through.
This film also did not shy away from telling us how things really were in India. I've never been to India myself but making 20% of the film in Hindi really adds to the authenticity. The scenes in the landfills as well clearly showed the high rate of poverty and orphans in the city.
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