Slumdog Millionaire
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Danny Boyle |
| Screenplay by | Simon Beaufoy |
| Based on | Q & A by Vikas Swarup |
| Produced by | Christian Colson |
| Starring | Dev Patel Freida Pinto Madhur Mittal Anil Kapoor Irrfan Khan |
| Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens |
| Music by | A.R. Rahman |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Pathé Eros Entertainment |
Release dates |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom[2][3][4] India[5] |
| Languages | English Hindi[1] |
| Budget | $15 million[6] |
| Box office | $377,910,544[6] |
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2009 British-Indian drama movie based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A and directed by Danny Boyle. The movie has a different story from the book.[7] It follows a homeless Mumbai resident who becomes a contestant for the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
Awards
[change | change source]Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards. It won the following eight:
- Best Picture, Christian Colson
- Best Director, Danny Boyle
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Simon Beaufoy
- Best Cinematography, Anthony Dod Mantle
- Best Original Score, A. R. Rahman,
- Best Original Song – "Jai Ho", Music by A. R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar (lyricist)
- Best Film Editing, Chris Dickens
- Best Sound Mixing, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, and Ian Tapp
It was also the highest-grossing film ever of an Indian film.
Cast
[change | change source]- Dev Patel as Jamal Malik
- Ayush Mahesh Khedekar as toddler Jamal
- Tanay Chheda as teenage Jamal
- Freida Pinto as Latika
- Rubina Ali as toddler Latika
- Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar as teenage Latika
- Madhur Mittal as Salim K. Malik, Jamal's elder brother
- Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail as toddler Salim
- Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala as teenage Salim
- Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar
- Irrfan Khan as Police Inspector
- Saurabh Shukla as Police Constable Srinivas
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Javed Khan
- Ankur Vikal as Maman
- Rajendranath Zutshi as Millionaire show producer
- Sanchita Choudhary as Jamal's mother
- Mia Drake Inderbitzin as Adele, an American tourist
- Siddhesh Patil as Arvind, blind beggar
- Shruti Seth as Call center instructor
- Arfi Lamba as Bardi
- Anjum Sharma as one of the Call center operators
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Slumdog Millionaire - Cast and Crew". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Screen International. 6 September 2008.
- ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire". The Guardian.
- ↑ NDTV (Jan 23, 2009). "Slumdog Millionaire - NDTV". Anupama Chopra. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ↑ Jeffries, Stuart (16 January 2009). "Author Vikas Swarup on Slumdog Millionaire" – via www.theguardian.com.
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