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Twitch - As if Millions left any doubt about Danny Boyles ability to draw compelling performances out of young actors Slumdog Millionaire abolishes those doubts utterly. In many ways Slumdog plays like the older and edgier cosusin of Millions and, just like that very under rated picture, Slumdog stands as one of Boyle’s absolute best.
Jamal is a very lucky man. Maybe. The eighteen year old orphan from Mumbai is about to strike it rich. Jamal is a contestant on the local version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and a very successful one at that: concluding his first appearance on the show just a single question away from winning the twenty million rupee grand prize. But perhaps Jamal is a little bit too successful … after all, how could an orphaned, uneducated teenager who grew up hard in the slums possibly have been able to know the answer to the assortment of questions that had been thrown at him? Doctors and lawyers fail well before the stage he has reached and so there can be only one conclusion: Jamal must be a fraud artist of the highest order and so the police bring him in for questioning overnight to judge if he should be allowed to rejoin the show the next day for his shot at the prize… [Full Story]
