Great movie, but not for the Indian Tourism Office...

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2009)

This is a great film. Danny Boyle is quite of touching-every-kind of genre, from "drugs-comedy" with "Transpointing" to Horror movie, with "28 days later", and many more, "The Beach" and his sweet masterpiece "Millionaire". Funny enough, this is his second film with "millionaire" word in the main title. And for this one "millionaire" refers, of course, to the super-matching UK's game from Celador "Who wants to be a millionaire ?", the very first TV game in history in which the contestant can win (in the UK where it is originally from) 1 000 000 pounds. The game itself is only a tool to tell a life story : the whole film focuses on the very struggling and tough life of two brothers from a miserable area of Mumbay, India. And actually it is what is all about.
While I enjoyed the acting, cinematography, editing and even the music,
the description of India, in this movie, is quite horrible. After watching this movie, there is no way you will visit this country. India is :
Over crowed and populated, very poor, with Hindus People providing religious intolerance - even to kill the Muslims (which is unfortunately a fact, Hindus being violent with Catholics as well) - very young kids orphaned living in bins with no help but evil people who exploit them, blind them and ask them to beg for even more money, police who - while completely useless according to the situations described in the films - do not hesitate to torture suspicious people in order to them to speak, etc, etc, etc...
This film gave me an idea of India who made me sick, and revealed even more how come Mother Theresa had struggled to do what she did.
According to the vision of the Film, India is not a nice country. At all....