kudos to all the people that attributed to promoting this film

Rating: Null/10 (1 April 2009)

kudos to the writers and director of this movie and to the people that nominated it for an academy award in order to get this film into the limelight! the movie of and itself was not remarkable to me. what was important was the purpose of producing it... to raise peoples awareness of the continued atrocities occurring throughout are world in our generation, this time in India. jamal's mother ends up slaughtered in just another religious riot...this time against muslims by i do not no who (but that should be irrelevant by this time as religious fanatics committing decimating other fractions and whoever falls in their wake have been committed by almost every religion i know). his bother and him along with talick (his love and third musketeer) end up orphaned children in the slums only to become victimized by unscrupulous and downright evil men who exploit them for money first through by begging for money on the streets and the prostitution. they have no moral limit and go to such tortuous extremes as to burn out a potential beggar boys eyes with acid. his brother is corrupted...had little alternative not to be, talick becomes an abused and imprisoned sex slave to a very rich, high ranking gangster, and jamal goes through his childhood as best he can by scamming off of tourists. when jamal gets chosen as a candidate for "who wants to be a millionaire" Hindi style he gets set up and betrayed by the host/producer of the show and is arrested by the police before the last question to be aired the following night. he is then summarily tortured and interrogated...on the grounds of cheating on a game show?!! he does get released and reunited with the love of his life...but come on people...why are these atrocities still occurring through the world in our very life times??!!!! a very good effort to raise the populaces awareness level yet once again and i surely hope it has some sort of impact on those that are still third eye blind! love and peace!