This movie has definitely dissipated all of my prejudice, terrific story!

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2009)

I admit: I was skeptical almost until the end of the movie. But all of my doubts about it were spread away with every single line and scene at a time. The ingenious symmetry between the beginning and the end of the movie got me smiling. It is definitely not just another Indian movie, describing a story more realistic and full of meanings then any Bollywood footage could ever be. The frame story procedure keeps your imagination awake during the entire movie, even though they use classical motifs, such as the duality good brother/ bad brother, the extreme good luck of the main character or the changing of his condition from "mendicant" to "prince". All the elements of this English-Indian co-production reveals us what proved to be the big winner of both Oscar and Goden Globes, after all :).