Great Movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2009)

This recently released flick all set in current day India is very good. I believe the Director/Producer? is British but the entire cast is Indian and in parts of it there are English Subtitles to accompany the Indian dialects but it is not really distracting. The enormous poverty of urban areas is a distraction in the sense of being sad and sadistic but is a necessary part of the story and the child actors are superb. The two young, orphaned brothers pick up a young girl along the way and part and re-group off and on as the story unfolds. It reminds me in a way of that Montana fly-fishing movie several years ago of good brother - bad brother as they matured. The flashbacks deal with the well-know TV quiz show "How To Be A Millionaire" whose questions are shown intermittently with the plot dealing with how the young man born in the lowest Caste answers them and whether or not he will go for or win the twenty million rubles which I suppose exchanges to one million U.S. The question also comes up with police interrogation thinking the show is rigged. "Millionnaire," by the way, originated in England just like Idol did and is shown in local versions in many places including what we once called Bombay. The story is very well done even with a few grim, but realistic child beggar scenes. After the movie during the Credits there is a lively group dance scene with all the cast which is really great. /Enjoy./Jack.