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penniless, eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's
one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on
India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? UPDATED: `Slumdog
Millionaire' wins Oscar for Best Movie
London Angeles Feb. 22, 2009 "Slumdog Millionaire" wins the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. It is the most coveted recognitions in the film industry today, and have been since 1929, when they were first handed out. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
"Slumdog Millionaire was made for around $14
million and was nearly passed over for cinema release, has so far
grossed approaching $100 million at the box office. ........Read
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Slumdog Millionaire won 4 trophies at Golden Globes BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Jan. 11, 2009 More than 50 Hollywood stars have been set as presenters at "The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards" to be telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 11 (8 - 11 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton. Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s biggest film star and recently named by Newsweek as one of the 50 most powerful people in the world (the only film star on the list), has been set as a presenter at “The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards”
"Slumdog Millionaire" sweep all four of its categories, including best drama and director for Danny Boyle. "Slumdog Millionaire" also won musical score-composer for AR Rahman and best screenplay for Simon Beaufoy. "We really weren't expecting to be here in America at all at one time, so it's just amazing to be here," said Simon Beaufoy, whose winning script was adapted from Vikas Swarup's novel "Q & A."
Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle introduced a Hindi expression to the backstage press: "Dil se." The mantra the production worked on means "from the heart." "This film was made it form the heart," he said. "And we never expected to be here." Boyle also made a connection to the four wins the movie garnered -- motion picture drama, director, screenplay, soundtrack -- to the "The Three Musketeers," the novel that is key to the movie. "There were four musketeers in the book, and there are four musketeers here." Boyle also talked so passionately about shooting in Mumbai -- how the city is a gift to filmmakers, how there is horror in the city but also an extraordinary happiness thanks to an effervescence -- that it brought out an almost imperceptible tear from actress Freida Pinto, who hails from that city. Actor Dev Patel is an award-winning English actor known for his roles as Anwar Kharral in the E4 TV teen drama series Skins. Patel was born in Sudbury, London, England, to Indian Gujarati Hindu parents, both of whom were born in Nairobi, Kenya. The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik
(Dev Patel), 18, became a contestant on the Hindi version of "Who
Wants to be A Millionaire?" Jamal has one brother and their
mother killed in religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims.
He grew up in the slums of Mumbai and becoming involved in a plot
that involves gangsters, brotherly loyalty and Latika, a girl who escaped his village after her family was killed and whom he and his brother liberated from prostitution. Now, she’s the kept woman of an abusive gangster. In her mature incarnation, Latika is played by Freida Pinto and is impossibly model-gorgeous. That’s the point at which Slumdog Millionaire becomes floridly romantic — and even more superficial The host, Anil Kapoor, who looks like Omar Sharif if he'd been
a high-end vacuum-cleaner salesman, models his act on the British
version of the show, which may be why he's a lot more condescending
than the courtly Regis Philbin. Mercilessly, he mocks Jamal for
being a ''chaiwalla''. Yet the kid is immune to insults or, it seems,
nerves , and he becomes a folk hero as he keeps knocking out those
impeccable final answers. Actor Dev Patel, actor Anil Kapoor, actress Freida Pinto,composer A.R. Rahman Directors: Danny Boyle Writers:Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) and Vikas Swarup (novel)
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Jan. 31, 2009: Danny Boyle's `Slumdog
Millionaire' wins DGA Feature Film Award - Following
the welcome by DGA President Michael Apted to an audience of more
than 1,500 guests at Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award dinner
on January 31, 2009, ....
Jan.
23, 2009: God has blessed Indian
music: Rahman - The honour of being the first
Indian music director to be nominated for three Oscars sits lightly
on the shoulders of A.R. Rahman, who attributes his success ..
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