by Gladiator007

Created on: March 17, 2009   Last Updated: March 19, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire is one of the most discussed movies in 2008-09 movie arena, and has created a huge hype in general audience. This movie tells us about the journey of a poor, neglected slum-kid's life towards accomplishment and achieving his goals and this movie reflects truthful and honest reflection of poor slum life in such a beautiful way, that not only impressed and won the million of audiences heart but also gained a tremendous worldwide recognition by achieving numerous awards.

The famous British movie director Danny Boyle was born in 20th October, 1956 at Radcliffe, Lancashire. He belongs to a normal working-class catholic family. He rose to fame for his directorial debut feature film "Shallow Grave", which earned him the Best Newcomer Award from London Film Critic Circle, 1996. After that, he directed some outstanding and critically acclaimed movie such as Trainspotting and 28 days later. As a director, Mr. Danny did cover some diverse area as a ground of his film. He is not just stereotyped in directing only one genre of movies like some typical directors. As a result one of his movies revolves around the post-apocalyptic sci-fi theme and another one revolves around the aftermath of drug-addiction in life. He just can't be type casted in a certain movie genre; he has covered vast and wide subjects as the themes of his movies which led him to earn a world-wide acknowledgment and unparallel popularity. His latest magic spell on the audience is the movie named Slumdog Millionaire, and once again he succeeded to win everyone's heart, from the normal viewer to the most hard-hitting movie critics.

The original story of this movie based on a novel named Q &A, written by an Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup. It was author's very first novel and earned him the Boeke Prize (South-Africa), 2006 and also the Prix Grand Public prize (Paris Book Fair), 2007. Mr. Swarop's book has been adopted in three different media versions, and each version saw the positive reception from audience and also critically praised. Those versions are radio play (BBC Radio4), a stage musical and the historical film version as Slumdog Millionaire.

The prominent and award-winning screen writer Simon Beaufoy adopted and re-wrote the story of Slumdog Millionaire based on Q&A novel. Mr. Simon made three research trips to India, to learn and to experience the original slum life in Mumbai, to make the story more authentic and practical.

The main character Jamal Malik is played by the famous

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