Two pictures in one

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2009)

Everything winning eight Oscars should make you suspicious. This is no exception. The plot is already well known. It's about the young guy from the slum who gets to higher and higher levels in the Indian version of "Who wants to be a millionaire?". Is he cheating or not? How can he know all this? The first hour is a hectic pseudo documentary about the quite brutal childhood of two brothers in the slums of Bombay. It's funny and barbaric and very well cut.
The other half is a quite conventional melodramatic love story and both the tempo and your interest gets lower and lower. 9 points for hour 1 and 4 points for hour 2. There are more and deeper things to say about the modern Indian development. Can we ask for higher ambitions during all two hours, please?