Good effort to draw story of luck driven Slum-boy

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2009)

Slumdog millionaire is a movie, I find over-hyped for everything. Number of movies on the similar line had already hit the floor and not noticed before they perished from memories. The movie is an endeavor to draw the life of a boy, born at Mumbai slum, rolled by his fortune to face all the worst happenings, that can come to a kid's life, controlled by some gangsters, also having a jealous brother, his profound love for a girl, that actually drive the life for boy.Boy Jamaal has portrayed as an extra intelligent human, who learns thing while running, is more knowledgeable than MBA's. The story speeds up in the background of a TV show " Who wants to be a millionaire". The way Jamaal's answers being mapped to incidents in his life was sometime indigestible. Pluses are those parts of movie having childhood of kids and story of the 2nd Saleem. Some portions of movie seemed very unpractical. Show host behavior was also unanswered in the movie. Overall this was an good effort to sketch the life of slum guy, driven by his luck and finally landed into the money. Missing practicality of some scenes, pulled movie to ordinary row sometimes.