Slumdog Millionaire :its a question.

Slumdog Millionaire: It’s a question.
A movie that has been written about a million times in the papers. The movie made it to the prestigious Golden Globe awards and won it too. A movie that got the local political parties pondering over the term ‘Slumdog’. Indeed Slumdog millionaire is a history.
But the question is what kind of history is it that we want to etch.

It sure is a rag to riches story with the picture of ‘real Mumbai’. It is a story of a slum dweller turning into a millionaire with answering all the questions. What is interesting and different is the amalgamation f the past with the present, the personal experience as a representation of thousands of slum dwellers which reside in Mumbai.
So the story unfolds giving away the horrors that the city has been through with every experience in Jamal Malik’s life be the riots, the rag picking at dump yards or the fake orphanage.

In Slumdog every question that is asked to Jamal has a scarred history. It shows the different world of Jamal Malik and the host of the show. While they are just questions and steps towards the money for the host and the audience, for Jamal the questions are something that he would never forget. And of course the significance of those mundane questions is something that a non slum dweller would never understand. It is reality of life that has made Jamal stronger than anyone else at the show. His answers are from the tribulations that life posed before him. Unlike most who think that academics and extra bright shiny performances matter in life, Jamal proves they don’t. In fact the real lessons come from faltering, losing and being an underdog who rises up like a phoenix only to win money, fame and most importantly love.
Jamal won because he survived. More than anything in this world he learned surviving; at a very tender age. It was his fighting with hunger, the goons, his gangster brother, the system that made him survive.

So it’s the question again which history do we want to etch in our hearts,
A movie that made it to the awards or a lone man who won over all odds in life?
Prachi Mujumdar