[Movie] - Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire - More than a movie. A life lesson.

I saw this movie last month and now I think it's interesting to talk about it. The original title is Slumdog Millionaire and the main backgrounds are the Indian slums. It tells a story of a little boy, Jamal Malik who grew up in Mumbai and fell in love with Latika, a little girl who lost her mother like Jamal and her brother Salim. In their childhood, they go to a orphanage that uses children to earn money (They blind boys to be beggar singers and sell girls to be prostitutes). They lost contact and he will during the movie, make everything to see Latika again. A few years later, he is a tea server at a call center and he sees the opportunity he was looking for to find Latika, be a participant in the famous program ''Who wants to be a millionaire?''.

Now, back to the work topic, in this movie, we can see child labour - in the scenes that Jamal and her brother are forced to work to survive because her mother was killed when they were young. They live traveling on top of trains, selling things they stole like shoes, guns, clothes, they pick pockets and they also cheat tourists at the Taj Mahal, because they pretending be tour guides. It's a reality in our world, half super developped but it still exists lots of children suffer and working hard just for a piece of food.

These are some photos of the young actors (they are slums' children in real life):



- Ayush Khedekar as Young Jamal
- Rubina Ali as Young Latika
- Azharuddin Ismail as Young Salim


And these are the principal actors:



- Dev Patel as Jamal
- Freida Pinto as Latika
- Madhur Mittal as Salim

Considered by many people the movie of the year, it won several awards, such as Best Director, Best Original Song, Best Picture, among others.

This was directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Christian Colson and written by Simon Beaufoy.
Go to its website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire/
Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q
And here's a song of its soundtrack, named ''Jai Ho'': http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84f74_slumdog-millionaire-jai-ho-dance-sc_shortfilms

Sources:
* http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/slumdog_millionaire/photo.html
* http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxSearchlight
* http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/