Slumdog Millionaire is not the best but a great fairy tale movie worth-watching.

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2009)

I decided to write the review after I read some really contradictory reviews of the film. I found that most of the foreigners were giving the film more than just great ratings and some Indians were giving some really bad rating for the film claiming that it as an obscure depiction of India and what the western people loved and expected to see about India. But what i can say is that what has been picturised in the movie is like 30 to 40 % India, but its not everything India is about and may be the scenario would have been something as shown like ten to fifteen years ago .I t does not show the present changing situation that is happening here. I am not claiming that there aren't any slums or brutal child labour here any more but i tend to say that the director has just shown only wrong or the bad aspects of our society. The instance where the quiz master tries to cheat Jamal and gets him arrested by the police might have happened somewhere in the west but not in India. There has been better Indian films depicting the real India and whole lot of that, but might have gone unnoticed just because they lacked global stage and global audience to rate the movies. About the music of the film, for those who have not yet heard any of AR rahman's timeless classics might have found them highly inspirational and engaging. But for many of the Indians here it's just another rahman track .So for people wondering why the movie got really bad reviews from some, these might be the reasons. For me the movie is more of an English man's view of how India still is after they left us(but i go with him as far as the slums, red streets and the child labour part is concerned).Watch the movie for the love, direction and the plot which bollywood might not have accepted for they might have thought it to be less lucrative. I give a 7/10 for Boyle's courage and for the cast of the movie.