Word: slumdog
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...Slumdog Millionaire Everybody say namaste to director Danny Boyle's hurtling epic about a poor kid (Dev Patel) who improbably answers tough posers on the Indian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A masala of romance and history, with true grit plus a fabulous production number--it's what movies ought...
...ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to its roots, Slumdog, adapted from the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an all-out dance number, composed by Bollywood deity A.R. Rahman. Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate. See TIME's Pictures...
...over. This weekend the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival concluded its 10-day grande bouffe of celebrity sightings, endless queues and 312 features. The People's Choice prize, voted by the TIFF audiences, went to Danny Boyle's Bollywood saga Slumdog Millionaire, which will hit real theaters in November. But there are plenty of movies still to consider - some awaiting theatrical release, some hoping for a distributor. Here are five, of varying quality, that you'll be hearing about...