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MOVIE REVIEW : SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Danny Boyle 's Oscar-winning 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire is both a crowd-pleasing love story and a sobering look at India itself . It fuses two different but related stories , as its young protagonist pursues and wins his lifelong love while also fighting against India 's numbing poverty and class and ethnic hatreds to prevail in the end

Eighteen-year-old Jamal (Dev Patel ) hails from Mumbai 's vast slums and has received only scant education , becomes an extremely successful contestant on India 's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

? - so successful , in fact , that the show 's smug , jealous host has Jamal arrested for fraud , assuming that a poor slumdog ' must have cheated During the police interrogation , which includes beating , head-dunking hanging by the arms , and electrical shocks (which the film implies are commonplace , Jamal recalls his life experiences , which appear in flashbacks and from which he draws to answer the show 's questions

In flashbacks , Jamal 's life appears as a series of humiliations and tragedies , beginning with his mother 's murder by a rampaging anti-Muslim mob . An orphan , he and his elder brother Salim become itinerant surviving by begging and petty crime , though Jamal is essentially good-hearted and aims to harm no one , while Salim is selfish and harder-hearted . During his youth , he meets Latika , an orphaned girl with whom he falls and stays in love , though they are separated eventually , she becomes a virtual concubine for Salim 's gangster boss while Jamal finds...

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