The book

Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat. Published in 2005, it was the author's first novel. Set in India, it tells the story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a poor young waiter who becomes the biggest quiz-show winner in history, only to be sent to jail on accusations (but with no evidence or proof) that he cheated (tricher) . It was the basis of the 2008 feature film Slumdog Millionaire.

Plot

Narrated in the first person, the novel follows the life of the young waiter as he explains to his sympathetic (compatissant) lawyer, Smita Shah, just how he managed to answer twelve random (without link) questions, by pure luck. As he says, "Well, wasn't I lucky they only asked those questions to which I knew the answers?"

Ram goes on to tell her how by drawing (inspired) from the experiences of his own short, yet turbulent and sometimes cruel life he, a poor, young waiter, managed to (arriver à) answer the twelve questions that led him to the jackpot.

The author has said that he was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project which installed a computer in a Delhi slum (poor neighborhood). Young children taught themselves about the use of computers without intervention from the experimenters.

Reception

Q & A won South Africa's Boeke Prize 2006. It was also shortlisted (nominated) for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.

To date, the book has sold translation rights in 40 languages, including French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Slovenian, Greek, Croatian, Turkish, Icelandic, Chinese, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Sinhalese, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, Hebrew, and Portuguese.

Paula Bedok, Joanna Morales

Soundtrack

The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman who planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of the three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song, the song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A. and the other song "Jai Ho" won the award and was shared with lyricist Gulzar. The soundtrack was released on M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T. Radio Sargam termed the soundtrack "magnum opus and the entire world is known to this fact."

Tracks :

1."O... Saya" performed by A. R. Rahman, M.I.A. *
2."Riots" by A. R. Rahman
3."Mausam & Escape" by A. R. Rahman
4."Paper Planes" performed by M.I.A.
5."Paper Planes (DFA Remix)" performed by M.I.A.
6."Ringa Ringa" by A. R. Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik, Ila Arun
7."Liquid Dance" by A. R. Rahman featuring Palakkad Sriram, Madhumitha
8."Latika's Theme" by A. R. Rahman featuring Suzanne D'Mello
9."Aaj Ki Raat" by Shankar ehsaan loy performed by Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Alisha Chinai
10."Millionaire" by A. R. Rahman featuring Madhumitha
11."Gangsta Blues" by A. R. Rahman featuring BlaaZe, Tanvi Shah
12."Dreams on Fire" by A. R. Rahman featuring Suzanne D'Mello
13."Jai Ho" by A. R. Rahman featuring Sukhwinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash **
*Nominated for Best Original Song at Academy Awards
**Winner of Best Original Song at Academy Awards

Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack - O... Saya :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUQht1HRmY

Jessica et Morgane

Box office

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Domestic Total as of Feb. 23, 2009(recette totale du film): $99,557,539
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Release Date(date de sortie du film): November 12, 2008
Genre: Drama
Running Time(durée du film): 2 hrs. 0 min.
Production Budget(budget pour le film): $15 million

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES (recettes brut)
Domestic(aux Etats-Unis): $99,557,539 61.9%
+ Foreign(dans les autres pays): $61,206,072 38.1%
= Worldwide(dans le monde): $160,763,611

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Release Dates: November 12, 2008 (limited)
December 26, 2008 (wide)

Opening Weekend:
(limited, 10 theaters):$360,018
($36,002 avg)

Opening Weekend: $4,301,870
(wide, 614 theaters, $7,006 average)
% of Total Gross: 4.3%

Widest Release(le nombre de cinema où le film est passé): 2,244 theaters

In Release(à l'affiche depuis): 104 days / 14.9 weeks

Geoffrey and Lilian

derogatory critics

In its attempt(essai) to portray the "real" India "Slumdog Millionaire" transferred the virgin/whore(=prostituée, who is represented with Latika in the movie) syndrome to the third world. You can either be a corrupted fat cat( a rich and corrupted businessman ) or a virtuous slumdog(Jamal in the movie) . For Director Danny Boyle India is the same old third world it always has been. The colonial gaze hasn't changed much. You can look at India as something which must be conquered (which nobody will admit to), something which must be studied (exotic/scientific subject-object), or something which must be helped (missionary). Either way we as consumers cannot look at India as Indians, but only as westerners. We wish we could change it, but we can't. Some people try. Boyle is one of them. I won't touch on the fact that Boyle is ENGLISH, an irony I find funnier(=funny) than Winston Churchill's drinking problem, but I will say that "Slumdog Millionaire" is just about as good as Boyle's other boxoffice hit: "28 Days Later."

MERZOUK Iman

Oscar Night

underpayed kid actors (bastien ; david )

Child actors Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who starred in the critically acclaimed film Slumdog Millionaire, will miss the Oscars next week because their parents have allegedly withdrawn their permission for traveling to Los Angeles with other cast members.According to reports, they have instead asked for the airfares to be paid to them in cash.The film, which tracks the story of an 18-year-old slum boy from rags to riches, has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.Film producer Christian Colson revealed that the unexpected success of the film has disturbed his and director Danny Boyle”””’’s plans for the children to enjoy a long-term benefit from appearing in the film.The movie bosses were accused of underpaying Azharuddin, 8, and Rubina, 8, who played young Salim and young Latika in the film.The film”””’’s makers had decided not take any of the child actors to any of the many award ceremonies, but were later persuaded to take them to the Oscars.They had begun trying to get passports for Rubina or Azharuddin when their parents said they would not be going.Azharuddin”””’’s father was in hospital and his mother would not let him travel with a chaperone.“Now it”””’’s too late. The last thing they said to us was give us the money for the plane fares instead,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying

The official website of slumdog millionaire and critics

http://www.slumdogmillionairemovie.co.uk/

Many critics including Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan have said that British filmmaker Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is a hard-hitting but exuberant tale of life in a Mumbai slum, is being lauded because it has a Westerner at the helm.

Its director, Danny Boyle, has faced accusations from some parts of the Indian media that his film was "poverty porn." Boyle has said he was trying to capture Mumbai's "lust for life."

The low budget film, which has scooped several international awards including the BAFTA film awards on Sunday, triumphed at the Golden Globes last month with four honours including best drama and won ten Oscar nominations.

William

Filming Locations (Corentin)

Filming locations for Slumdog Millionnaire =) xD

This is an extraordinary film. From the original concept of the novel on which it is based (Q&A by Vikas Swarup), the screenplay (scénario) by Simon Beaufoy (Full Monty) but especially the masterful (magistral) creation and direction of the film by Danny Boyle. From the opening moments (moments d'ouverture) until the final scene, the audience was fully (pleinement) engaged. I was completely lost in the world that Danny Boyle created. This is not a story that has been told and retold (racontée), hashed and rehashed (haché et rabâchage). It is fresh and engaging - all at once quickly moving, romantic, violent, culturally insightful (perspicace), desperate and slightly (légèrement) fantastic. There are some comic elements to the film but to describe it as a "comedy" seems inappropriate. The film was shot on location in India, mostly in Mumbai. Slumdog Millionaire is yet another testament to depth and range (la profondeur et la portée) of Boyle's artistic talent who has directed such diverse films as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Sunshine. I saw the film on at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival as a "sneak preview." The film was introduced by Boyle who said that the official opening of the film would be the next weekend at the Toronto Film Festival. He also said that there may be some final tweaking (=change) of the film prior (avant) to Toronto.In the discussion after the film Boyle strongly recommended three Indian made films: Satya, Company and Black Friday. He described each as superb. Boyle also stated (déclaré) that a portion of the Slumdog Millionaire was shot with a Canon EOS still camera, especially around the Taj Mahal, rather than a proper movie camera which creates unwanted (indésirables) attention while filming at popular tourist locations in India.

Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer

This video is the trailer of the film 'Slumdog millionaire' produced by Danny Boyle and posted by Ludovic ¤--$hùp@--¤

Actor: Rajendranath zutshi (dalia)

Rajendranath Zutshi, aka Raj Zutshi, is a Mumbai-based Indian film and television actor. He was actor Aamir Khan's brother-in-law, as he was married to producter-director-writer Nasir Hussains daughter Nuzhat. Raj and Nuzhat divorced in 2006. Nasir Hussain and Aamir Khan's father Tahir Hussain are brothers. Zutshi is a Kashmiri Pundit

Actor :Saurabh Shukla (dalia)

Saurabh Shukla is a Star Screen Award and Zee Cine Award nominated Indian film and television actor, director and scriptwriter.Shukla's family left Gorakhpur for Delhi when he was two years old. After completing his schooling, he did his graduation from Khalsa College, Delhi. His professional career began in 1984 with his entry into theatre

slumdug millionaire trailer

Mégane & Floriane .

This video is the trailer of the film "Slimdog Millionaire" produced of Danny Boyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q

Danny boyle

Danny Boyle (born 20 October, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning British director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, Sunshine, and 28 Days Later. In 2009 Boyle won an Academy Award for Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire.He began his career in the theatre, first with the Joint Stock Theatre Company and then with the Royal Court Theatre, where he was Artistic Director from 1982 until 1985 and Deputy Director between 1985 and 1987. His productions during this period included Howard Barker's Victory, Howard Brenton's The Genius and Edward Bond's Saved, which won the Time Out(a newspaper) Award. Boyle also directed five productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company.In 1980, Boyle started working in television as a producer for BBC Northern Ireland, where he produced, amongst other TV films, Alan Clarke's controversial Elephant before becoming a director on shows such as Arise And Go Now, Not Even God Is Wise Enough, For The Greater Good, Scout and two episodes of Inspector Morse ("Masonic Mysteries" and "Cherubim and Seraphim"). He was also responsible for the highly acclaimed BBC2 series, Mr. Wroe's Virgins.
Filmography
Shallow Grave (1994) (petits meutres entre amis)
Trainspotting (1996)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997) (une vie moins ordinaires)
The Beach (2000)
28 Days Later (2002)
Millions (2004)
Sunshine (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Timothée.

Actor :Anil Kapoor (dalia)

Anil Kapoor (Hindi: born December 24, 1956) is a prominent Indian film actor and producer. He first won acclaim for his roles in Yash Chopra's drama Mashaal (1984) and Shekhar Kapur's sci-fi Mr. India (1987), and won a Filmfal Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in the former.Anil Kapoor was born in a chawl in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai, India, to a film producer Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal Kapoor. He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, Chembur. Coming from a film-oriented family, Kapoor's elder brother, Boney Kapoor, is a producer while younger brother Sanjay Kapoor is also a well known Bollywood actor, though not as successful.
In 1984, he married Sunita Kapoor and had two daughters and a son. Kapoor's elder daughter is the actress Sonam Kapoor. As of 2008, his other daughter, Rhea, is studying in New York while his son Harsh is still in school.

The characters

Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of Jamal Malik, a penniless(without money) teenage orphan(orphelin) from the slums of Mumbai who is one question away from winning a staggering(huge/qui fait tomber à la renverse) 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night(when the show stop), suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating(tricher). Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story(la fin de l'histoire), a jaded(épuisé) police inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales(histoires fascinantes) of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits(leurs intelligences) to his hair-raising encounters(rencontres effrayantes) with local gangs(les gangs locaux) to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns(Quand le jour se lève) and Jamal returns to answer the final question, sixty million viewers are about to find out.

Bastien.

Reviews.

Miami Herald. Rene Rodriguez. 10/10

A terrific (great) yarn, one so engrossing (prenant) and surprising that the nature of the story's structure -- each question Jamal gets asked on the show corresponds with a traumatic or momentous( key/important) moment from his childhood -- never feels like a contrived framing device ( ça ne semble pas faux).

Washington Post. Ann Hornaday. 9/10

Like all good fairy tales (comtes de fées), this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper (plus profond) idea -- in this case, the relative nature of what we think we know, and what's worth knowing at all. No doubt Dickens* himself would approve.

*19.th. Century English author who wrote about poverty in London.

Rolling Stone. Peter Travers. 8,8/10

Brimming (rempli de) with humor and heartbreak (amour impossible), Slumdog Millionaire meets at the border of art and commerce and lets one flow into the other as if that were the natural order of things.

Time. Richard Corliss. 8/10

Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.

The New York Times. Manohla Dargis. 7/10

In the end, what gives me reluctant (peu disposé) pause about this bright, cheery, hard-to-resist movie is that its joyfulness feels more like a filmmaker's calculation than an honest cry from the heart about the human spirit (or, better yet, a moral tale).

Clément.

Actor : Devesh Patel (dalia)

Devesh Patel was born in Brent, Greater London, England, to Hindu Gujarati Indian parents, both of whom were born in Nairobi, Kenya. His mother Anita Patel is a carer and his father Raj Patel an IT consultant. His drama teacher Niamh Wright has stated: "Dev was a gifted student who quickly impressed me with his innate ability to communicate a wide variety of characters imaginatively and creatively. He was awarded full marks for his GCSE performance to a live audience and the visiting examiner was moved to tears by his honest portrayal of a child in the Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia.He eventually completed his AS Levels in 2007, while he was working in Skins.

slum dog millionaire posters

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed (realisé)by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
After screenings(mis al'ecran) at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire initially had a limited North American release on 12 November 2008 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, to critical acclaim and awards success. It later had a nationwide(au USA) release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009 and in the United States on 23 January 2009. It premiered the (the first) in Mumbai on 22 January 2009. The DVD is set to be released on 31 March 2009.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated(nominé) for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's success, it is the subject of controversy (dispute)concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare (bien-etre) of its child actors.

Synopsis

Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India¹s "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating(tricher); how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum(bidonville) where he and his brother grew up( ont grandi), of their adventures together(ensemble) on the road, of vicious encounters(rencontres) with local gangs, and of Latika (Pinto), the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions.

Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered(de plus en plus complexe) story reveals where he learned the answers to the show¹s seemingly(semble) impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches(richesses) really doing on the game show?

When the new day dawns(se lève) and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.

alicia.