Jai Ho !!!

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2009)

Heard a lot about this movie before watching it finally. All the accolades, the golden globes and every praise the movie got was heard before i saw the movie. So the excitement and expectation to watch the Indian 'City of God' was tremendous. And...the movie delivered. It presented an entirely new face of Mumbai which is rarely seen in any of the movies rolled out by Bollywood, based in Mumbai (quite ironic......). The direction, the acting, the music everything was superb but the aspect which won it for me was the camera-work. Each shot, each angle shouted Perfection(with a capital P...) The movie started off brilliantly with the small kids running from the cops and the parallel story of the older Jamal in the police station getting tortured. The movie grew darker and a bit comic simultaneously showing the ugly face of what actually happens to slum kids on the streets of big cities. The movie slowed down a bit in the middle and i personally didn't like the end. Not that i didn't wanted the slumdog to win millions but the way it was shown was a bit over the top. May be it was a rags to riches story and the writer wanted it to be like that. An Oscar favorite for the Best Movie but don't think that it can win. Maybe a nomination might do it justice. Bottomline : Don't miss it for anything. Not even for 20 Million rupees(watch the movie and you will get the joke)!!!