Jai Ho!

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2012)

Emotional, Disturbing and Triumphant, this is what it is mostly due to the excellent piece of work by Danny Boyle for his effort in making this film with inexperienced actors in a tough location and showing a life of a slum kid, along with decent acting by the ensemble cast, each portraying their character brilliantly and a good,bold and true story with some excellent background music being the cherry on the top.
The Story is about a slum kid named Jamal, and the movie shows how Jamal gets a chance in a competition named ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire',and being a slum kid,amazingly going on to win the big prize and answering all the questions. But in his journey to find his answers for this questions, the movie shows his life starting from his village to going around places with his brother and again returning to Mumbai in search of his lady love(Latika), but again parting ways with her due to a fight with his brother(Salim), but how he amazingly again finds to meet her when he becomes an adult,and then miraculously manages to win the competition.The Story is taken from a novel written by Vikas Swarup.
The Acting from the ensemble cast is very good mostly due to their guidance coming from Boyle, but every character ranging from the kids to the main actors have done their own roles perfectly. But In My Opinion, the younger and teenage versions of Jamal,Latika and Salim were probably the best actors in the movie, along with great performances from Anil Kapoor and Irfan Khan. The Other actors also did their respective roles perfectly.
Danny Boyle has a hell of a job with this film, taking mostly inexperienced kids in the first half of the film and making them act brilliantly,also helping inexperienced actors like Patel and Pinto do their jobs excellently, and has also done a great job showing us the dark side of Mumbai and the slums of Mumbai and also showing how they can try and have such a fun life even though they are slum kids quite brilliantly, and this is probably his best work till date. He Is Bold in making this type of a movie with a very low budget and turning it into an Oscar winner and he really shows his great talents in this movie.
The Story written by Vikas Swarup is excellent and bold showing the dark side of Mumbai and how they can have such a fun life even though they are slum kids,they can rarely eat food and have to earn money by selling some items, and he has written an excellent story revealing the ''real India' perfectly. The Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has done a good job in adapting the story from the novel and making it easy for the crew in making this film. The Cinematography in the film is also very good in showing the slums of Mumbai,and revealing some breathtaking scenery's in Mumbai and going into places no other director/crew can go into, and full marks to the cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle for showing us excellent scenes of Mumbai.
The Background Music of the film is just superb,and A.R Rahman has done a superb job in giving the suitable music for this film along with great songs such as '"Jai Ho!', ''Ringa Ringa' Etc etc,and has benchmarked himself as one of the best composers in the world today, and also good job from the other sound crew in making this into a great film with excellent music.
This is really a great and bold film due to sheer brilliance of Danny Boyle,along with the decent acting from the whole cast, a great story and excellent music to sum it all up, this really is a must watch for a movie lover.
8/10