Not bad...but

Rating: 7/10 (28 September 2009)

This movie was OK. I rented it and sat down with my wife to watch it. The story is very depressing for 90% of it, shows a lot of poverty and cruelty of living poor in India. The story basically centers around Jamal who some strange way gets on the show Who want's to be a millionaire in India. Quickly goes into some strange interrogation where he starts to tell the story of love, happiness, tragedy and some joy. The movie benefited by not having the dance scenes and song scenes in the middle of the movie (as most typical Bollywood movies).
Yeah Hollywood gave a lot of Oscars to this movie. I think it was in hope of "making happy a new market" close to Bill people. The story was OK but not solid enough to be in the Best Screenplay category (Frost Nixon was still better). Got Oscar for sound and music (Walle should have won both). Just my opinion but this movie does not deserve to be in top 250 of all time.
I still enjoyed Monsoon Wedding much more as a example of good India film-making.