Aborbing and winning drama; one of the year's very best!

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2008)

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008) **** Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Azharuddin Mohammad Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Rubiana Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala. Aborbing and winning drama set in poverty stricken India with Patel as a teen whose pure survival skills through out his amazing life on the hard-bitten streets helps him gain access to the Hindi version of the TV game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Told in flashbacks filmmaker Danny Boyle - and co-director Loveleen Tandan, does a fantastic job of holding the audience's attention as each piece of the puzzle finds its way to the climactic moment of truth for our hero: his long-lost childhood love Pinto (ethereally beautiful and truly worthy of being a prize for anyone's hopes and desires). One of the year's very best.