Good, but come on... the globe? SAG? Oscar??? #34 on the top 250???

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2009)

Slumdog Millionaire...Hmmm, where do we begin... This is a very nicely shot movie with amazing screenplay, great story, the music is good (not the best of Rahman's work though)
However, thats all the positive there is in the movie. Coming to the downside, the acting is very poor (excluding the kids , i thought they gave mind blowing performances). There are reinforcements of stereotypical India that so many Westerners believe (Not everyone works at a call center and not everything in India has to do something or the other with the Taj Mahal). Anyway coming back to my point, there are plot holes that Danny didn't think of, like how the host and the contestant could talk in the middle of a show or how the show became live!! And the worst is the fact that the English language doesn't come naturally to Indians, it sounds odd. It could have been a better movie if the other two sets of kids spoke in Hindi.
I've given this movie an 8, so obviously i feel its good. But i can't believe that it won so many awards for best movie and direction. There are so many movies which were better than this one. The only awards it deserves are for the screenplay and music. Thats it. In a nutshell, i feel this is a wonderful story, told fantastically but extremely over-hyped, does not deserve the #34 spot at all if you ask me.