Superb Film

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2009)

This film will appeal to anyone who loved 'The Pursuit of Happ-y-ness'.
However, 'Slumdog Millionaire' is much darker and explores the depths of man's inhumanity to man much deeper. In essence a Shakespearian love story, defined by two brothers contrasting pursuit of love and power respectively.
The plot, where Jamal soldiers on answering a series of difficult 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' questions which coincidentally follow the story of the brothers lives in chronological order at first glance seems unbelievable, until you embrace the concepts of karma and fÃªte, hold on to the expression 'It is written' and understand that he is not there for the money, but for love.
Superbly cast, brilliantly directed, filmed and written with an intriguing sub-plot in the developing relationship between Jamal and the policeman (most of which was cut from the movie).
Seeing this on DVD there is a good half an hour of deleted scenes, mostly dropped I assume to shorten the film to its still relatively long but highly engaging two hours. I hope Danny Boyle will be invited back to create a director's cut in the near future with at least half of them reinstated. This would make the film a lot easier to follow and clarify some ambiguous points that could be missed if you did not give the dialogue, sometimes hard to interpret to slower western ears, your 100% attention.