A fancy story

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2017)

And also romantic.Around a TV show called "Who Wants To Be Millionaire" where Jamal, a boy whose upbringing took place in a Mumbai slum but that is answering right question after question to the point of being suspected of cheating and being arrested and beaten at intervals by the police, we watch several episodes of his past and present life flashback after flashback. Those episodes show enough of the misery, violence and corruption that reign in some Indian social extracts, corruption that affects also the authorities and not only them. The images are strong and suggestive. The sound track in musical terms is of great quality. But the strong point is the suspense created around the TV contest where night after night our hero is answering right to every question trying to win 20 million rupees in the end. A well made movie that rivets our attention from the beginning to the end.