Brilliant Idea/Story/Pacing one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.

Rating: 9/10 (5 February 2009)

I can't believe people would actually give this movie 1 star because they use a combination of Hindi/English, or that this is stereotyping about "poor Indians", come on!!!!. It is a brilliant film, the music was especially surprising given I have seen several Bollywood films and usually dislike the music. I have read comments on this board like "This film feeds into the Western mind that all Indians are poor." Give me a break, all "the west" has seen of Mumbia is the incredible growth, a rising standard of living, night clubs..etc, so will those people stand up and say there are no slums like the ones viewed in Slumdog Millionaire?? Of course there are. If you want to see an American film that is pretty harsh on American city standards, you only need to look one place above Slumdog on IMDb top 250. 33. 8.6 Se7en (1995) 220,812 34. 8.6 Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 53,243
But the point is THESE ARE MOVIES PEOPLE....it is not a documentary...so lighten up.