British director Danny Boyle’s latest film Slumdog Millionaire , which tells the story of a slum boy in Mumbai, has got rave reviews by critics in the US.
The movie, starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan , is adapted from Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup’s bestselling novel ’Q & A’. Considering the way everybody is lauding the film, there is a possibility that it will go to the Oscars.
Film critic Roger Ebert, whose reviews get published in 200 US newspapers to mainstream dailies, writes: "This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from rags to riches on the strength of his lively intelligence…The film’s universal appeal will present the real India to millions of moviegoers for the first time."
Ebert goes on to say that the film is "one of those miraculous entertainments that achieves its immediate goals and keeps climbing toward a higher summit."
The Washington Times called the film "a prize worth savouring... (The film) immerses the audience in an alien landscape and shows it through the eyes of a young man fighting against history and his own culture’s expectations."
The New York Post critic Lou Lumenick declared it "SLUMDERFUL!" "THIS ’MILLIONAIRE’ IS WELL WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD," he said, adding: "Four stars simply aren’t enough for Danny Boyle’s ’Slumdog Millionaire’, which just may be the most entertaining movie I’ve ever labelled a masterpiece in these pages."
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan said: "Boyle has been nothing if not bold with this film. He’s dared to use so many venerable movie elements it’s dizzying, dared us to say we won’t be moved or involved, dared us to say we’re too hip to fall for tricks that are older than we are.”
