TWO REVIEWS : OUTSIDER'S VIEWPOINTS REVIEW 1 Last Sunday, we watched "Slumdog Millionaire", the multiple Academy award winning movie, directed by Danny Boyle. Boyle, being a British citizen depicts the poverty of India and Mumbai fairly realistically. The way the story is unravelled is interesting : Jamal Malik answers questions on Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) that are intrinsically linked to incidents in his life. Now, I want to read the novel to see how Vikas Swarup has built up the tale ! The host Prem Kumar cannot believe that a tea vendor at a call centre can answer the tougher questions in the show and so he asks the police to interrogate him to find out how he knows the answers. Jamal's story of his life emerges during the interrogation. It is the story of any poor struggler in Mumbai, a tale of communal riots, growing up in filth and seeing the worser side of the city. It is a pity that Boyle has chosen only to show the se...
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