The original story Q&A by Vikas Swarup is much better

Rating: 1/10 (18 March 2009)

If you liked Slumdog Millionaire, give a try to the original story Q&A by Vikas Swarup.
There is even a BBC audio drama of the original story, which is what I listened to. You know what? I thought the audio drama was ten times better than the movie. You find that hard to believe? Give it a try! (Don't condemn without giving it a fair hearing. Note that, from Wikipedia: "The radio dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon, directed and produced by John Dryden on BBC Radio 4, won the Sony Radio Award for Drama 2008 and the IVCA Clarion Award 2008.") The story, as in the BBC audio drama, is quite different from the movie. The movie is only very loosely based on the original story. The original story AVOIDS THE LEFT-WING Clichés of the movie. Starting at the very beginning, for example, the main character's name is Ram Mohammed Thomas and while very young he is raised by a kind Christian priest (not in the slums). The left-wing cliché avoided here is that he is oppressed by society/the establishment from birth, growing up in slums with his mother killed in a massacre of a religious minority by the religious majority. And the comparison goes on and on like this, if you compare the original story to the movie version.
You say that I must be a fool because the movie screenplay won an Academy Award? That's one view. My own view is that the Academy Award was political and I've lost respect for the Academy.
Again, before sounding off that anyone who believes the original story is vastly superior to the movie script must be a fool, please read the original story or listen to the BBC version.