What a surprisingly great film

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2008)

Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting, has done it again with a vastly different in content but similar in style film. It's got all of Boyle's edgy editing and use of music, but the content is about how a poor boy from Mumbai goes through several hardships to wind up on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He appears on the show solely to find the love of his life, Latika, whom he met a very young age, but circumstances and his ambiguous brother, Salim have kept them apart.
This film has lots of fun parts, but also lots of tense drama and suspense actually with a brilliant concept of using flashbacks to show their affect on his chances on the TV show.
I walked in knowing nothing about this film, but was blown away by the end. My only fault is that the film is a little contrived, but beyond it's one of the best movies you'll see of 2008. I highly recommend you go see it where you can.