Slumdog Millionaire,Audio-CD (Film Tie-In)

Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and diplomat. He is best known as the author of the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the 2009 winner of Best Film at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.

Well, for all this, it's got punch and narrative pizzazz: a strong, clear, instantly graspable storyline that doesn't encumber itself with character complexity, and the cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle is tremendous. It's definitely got that quirky-underdog twinkle and the silverware glint of awards can't be far away.The Guardian. Taken from the novel Q&A by Vikus Swarup, this is a big, visually sumptuous and energetic film. It's Dickens meets the Brothers Grimm, but set in India. What Boyle gives us, though, is an India that British film-makers, usually riddled with imperial guilt, rarely show us: the modern, globalised India of the fast buck, media, celebrity,call centres and high-rises. This new India is perfectly summed up when the film's young hero, Jamal, who has just been kicked in the face, says to two American tourists who have witnessed the assault, "You wanted to see the real face of India? Well, here it is!"The Sunday Times. Slumdog Millionaire is as acerbic as it is clear-eyed about the brutal power dynamics in modern-day Mumbai. But, at the same time, what makes it so warming and what has been inspiring audiences all across the world to cheer at its rousing ending, is its passion for a place that writer Suketu Mehta has described as a "maximum city".Mumbai has been through hell recently. But Slumdog Millionaire, whose everyman hero is a Muslim, is a wonderful tribute to it and to its people. It is, in fact, a maximum film.The Telegraph.

Well, for all this, it's got punch and narrative pizzazz: a strong, clear, instantly graspable storyline that doesn't encumber itself with character complexity, and the cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle is tremendous. It's definitely got that quirky-underdog twinkle and the
silverware glint of awards can't be far away.The Guardian.

Taken from the novel Q&A by Vikus Swarup, this is a big, visually sumptuous and energetic film. It's Dickens meets the Brothers Grimm, but set in India. What Boyle gives us, though, is an India that British film-makers, usually riddled with imperial guilt, rarely show us: the modern, globalised India of the fast buck, media, celebrity,call centres and high-rises. This new India is perfectly summed up when the film's young hero, Jamal, who has just been kicked in the face, says to two American tourists who have witnessed the assault, "You wanted to see the real face of India? Well, here it is!"The Sunday Times.

Slumdog Millionaire is as acerbic as it is clear-eyed about the brutal power dynamics in modern-day Mumbai. But, at the same time, what makes it so warming and what has been inspiring audiences all across the world to cheer at its rousing ending, is its passion for a place that
writer Suketu Mehta has described as a "maximum city".Mumbai has been through hell recently. But Slumdog Millionaire, whose everyman hero is a Muslim, is a wonderful tribute to it and to its people. It is, in fact, a maximum film.The Telegraph.