“Mere pas maa hai” said music director of this film A. R. Rahman at the time of taking “Oscar awards” for this film his mother was present there. This film Slumdog Millionaire relates to the story of children of Asia’s largest slum inside Mumbai in India.

The film, which is recognized world over after being recognized by “Eight Oscar Awards”, does need neither any introduction nor any reviews. Go straight to the cinema hall, film is free from entertainment tax in many states, see it from very beginning to the end, and write yourself a review. A very realistic film of today’s slum life and human behavior, a must see for everyone.

An 18 years old boy named Jamal  Malik the street kid or say slumdog from Dharavi the slums of Mumbai is just one question away from winning 20 million rupees on Indian TV show “Who wants to be a millionaire” being watched by whole big nation. The show breaks for lack of time and on suspicion of cheating, police arrests him that how could a slum boy know so much and tortures him. Now the whole story revolves in flash back. Each chapter of boy’s life pinpoints to his answers to each question at TV show. The final day comes and the boy becomes millionaire before 60 million viewers.

Oscar Academy awards won by this film are –

1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Adapted Screenplay
4. Best Cinematography
5. Best Original Score (music)- A. R. Rahman
6. Best Original Song – Jai Ho – A. R. Rahman with Gulzar
7. Best Film Editing
8. Best Sound Mixing – Resul Pookutty (Indian) and 2 British

Stars of the film are Dev Patel as Jamal Malik the hero. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar is younger Jamal. Tanay Chheda is middle age Jamal. Freida Pinto as Latika the heroin, Rubina Ali is younger Latika (a real slums girl child from Mumbai). Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar is middle age Latika. Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Saurabh Shukla and many more slum boys and girls.