A truly awesome movie about Bombay!

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2009)

Slumdog is a truly awesome movie which has Bombay in great detail, manages to cover some important events in the history of the city(the communal riot scene with the police) and some dark facts which are swept under the covers (like the scene about kids being blinded for begging, the police brutality). The irony in the movie is truly amazing.
The question about the poet Surdaas and the connection about the blindness scene was that the poet was blind even though he spoke of 'seeing' his lord.
The movie constantly reminded about the book 'Shanataram' again about the history of the city and of violence.
The performances were superb especially from Dev Patel and the actress who is truly beautiful. Irrfan Khan is not a Shahrukh Khan(and Thank Go for that) and never ceases to amaze.
And having seen Cidade de Deus(which I truly enjoyed watching), I thought this movie is a lot more plausible.