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...criminal poverty with his tougher brother Salim (Madhur Mittal). Jamal wants to stay on the show long enough to attract the notice of his lifelong love, Latika (Freida Pinto), whom he's lost in the billion-strong crowd but who must be out there somewhere. Can't a slum boy hope for a miracle...
...rework all the other stories. The structure is the same, but the questions [asked by the game-show host] are different." Beaufoy made four trips to India over 18 months "to get a completely fresh look at India. I spent a long time in the Juhu slum in Mumbai. I was trained as a documentary director, and I just went back to doing that. I listened to people, talked to people." From these wanderings came moments that give the film its pungent life, like the scene in which Jamal jumps into a mound of human waste to get the autograph...
Boyle could have cast the slum kids with English speakers, but he realized he'd get more natural performances from the real thing. "They don't have any inhibitions about acting," he says. "We'd been working in the slums, and we'd ask local people, 'Would you play this part?' 'No problem,' they'd say. 'Do you want me to do my Amitabh look or my Shah Rukh Khan look?' I'd say, 'No, do your own look.'" Having slum children play two of the three 6-year-olds meant shooting their scenes in Hindi. But as Boyle says...
...blog entry by Bollywood maharaja Amitabh Bachchan, in which he asked if the film would have generated such hype if it had been made by an Indian director, led to an avalanche of Bollywood stars and critics taking positions for and against him. On Jan. 22, some 40 slum dwellers protested outside the Mumbai home of actor Anil Kapoor, who plays a leading role in the film. The protesters held banners reading "I Am Not a Dog" - referring to slumdog in the film's title - and "Poverty for Sale." Two days earlier, a slum leader in the central Indian city...
...slum dwellers have been as down on the film. In Dharavi, the Mumbai slum where parts of the movie were shot, many say they want to watch it. "I liked the songs," says Vittal Naravane, who runs a printing workshop. "And I liked the idea that even if you're not educated, like the hero of the film, you can be successful by dint of your common sense and hard work." This message of hope seems to have worked for many among India's lower middle-class aspiring for a better life. "The film only shows what is real," says...