Tastefully melodramatic hymn to human dignity, love and devotion.

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2009)

If you mix couscous with prunes, yogurt and nuts - try it sometime - you ought to add some cyan peppers. Lushly entertaining romantic, cliché and yet so outstanding hymn to a human spirit, devotion,endurance love and adherence to Destiny. It squeezes out of you all the emotions and tears you are able to produce. In owe of the dignity and simplicity of a character forged in the squalor of physical, moral and emotional ordeal of a life  the viewer is enveloped in compulsion of compassion and respectful admiration of integrity and humanity of Jamal's nature. I was somewhat worried about the Bollywood factor, but it was minimal and necessary. An entertaining masterpiece.