"this mass of energy."" By the summer of 2006, British production companies Celador Films and Film4 Productions invited director Danny Boyle to read the script of ""Slumdog Millionaire"". Boyle hesitated, since he was not interested in making a film about ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"", which was produced by Celador. Then Boyle learned that the screenwriter was Beaufoy, who had written ""The Full Monty"" (1997), one of the director's favourite British films, and decided to revisit the script. Boyle was impressed by how Beaufoy wove the multiple storylines from Swarup's book into one narrative, and the director decided to"
"Madhur Mittal Madhur Mittal (born 20 February 1991) is an Indian actor. He is best known for his performance as Salim Malik in the film ""Slumdog Millionaire"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 and for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Madhur was born in Agra, India In 1997, Madhur won ""Boogie Woogie"" a popular reality-based dance show on television. Shortly after, his family moved to Mumbai where he joined AVM High for his schooling and Madhur forayed into acting and dancing on stage"
"Ransom"" which aired on ITV1 from 23 February 2012. Most recently, he starred in the Disney film ""Million Dollar Arm"" as Dinesh Patel and received good reviews for his performance as the villain in Maatr (2017). Won Nominated Madhur Mittal Madhur Mittal (born 20 February 1991) is an Indian actor. He is best known for his performance as Salim Malik in the film ""Slumdog Millionaire"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 and for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Madhur was born in Agra,"
"first released in the US to great critical acclaim. It won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and three awards (Best Film, Best Director and Most Promising Newcomer) at the British Independent Film Awards 2008. The National Board of Review picked ""Slumdog Millionaire"" as the best film of 2008. The movie swept five awards out of its six nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards, and all four nominations awarded at the Golden Globe Awards including best director, picture, screenplay and score, and seven BAFTA Awards. It received ten Oscar nominations of which it won eight, including"
"Controversial issues surrounding Slumdog Millionaire The film ""Slumdog Millionaire"", which won eight Academy Awards in 2009, has been subjected to a number of criticisms, notably regarding how it portrays Indian society and alleged exploitation of some of the actors. One of the first celebrities to discuss the film was Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, from whom young Jamal eagerly seeks an autograph shortly after the beginning of the film and who was the original presenter for ""Kaun Banega Crorepati"", the Indian version of ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" On 13 January 2009 Bachchan wrote that in another part of his"
"Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala () (born 17 May 1993) is an Indian film actor and entrepreneur. Gajiwala is best known for his 2008 role as the young Salim Malik in the film ""Slumdog Millionaire"". He received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the film. Gajiwala is based in Mumbai and resides with his family in Mumbai's Mahalaxmi area. His father, Kalpesh Gajiwala, is a plastic surgeon, and his mother Astrid Lobo is a doctor. He has two older sisters, Gayatri and Nivedita. Gajiwala attended the Campion School in"
"Raj Films but failed to do well at the box-office. His most recent films were his first English language film, ""Slumdog Millionaire"", which was released on 12 November 2008, and ""Yuvvraaj"", which was released on 21 November 2008. ""Yuvvraaj"", with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, failed to do well at the box-office. On the other hand, ""Slumdog Millionaire"" has won a number of international awards and received rave reviews from critics, costing only US$15 million to produce, but pulling in more than $352 million worldwide. In January 2009, he attended the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony"
"den rätte komma in)"", Sweden ""WALL-E"" – Thomas Newman ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – Simon Beaufoy ""WALL-E"" – Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumously) Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Tomas Alfredson – ""Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)"" Dev Patel – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's ""WALL-E"" became the most successful film in this year's ceremony, won four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations."
"by Frank Cottrell Boyce. His next collaboration with Alex Garland was the science-fiction film ""Sunshine"", featuring ""28 Days Later"" star Cillian Murphy, and was released in 2007. In 2008 he directed ""Slumdog Millionaire"", the story of an impoverished child (Dev Patel) on the streets of Mumbai, India who competes on India's version of ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"", for which Boyle won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Director. The most successful British film of the decade, the film won eight Academy Awards and seven BAFTA Awards in total. On film-making Boyle commented, ""To be a film-maker...you have to"
"of any film released in 2008. Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun Times"" gave the film 4 out of 4 stars, stating that it is, ""a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating."" ""Wall Street Journal"" critic Joe Morgenstern refers to ""Slumdog Millionaire"" as, ""the film world's first globalised masterpiece."" Ann Hornaday of ""The Washington Post"" argues that, ""this modern-day 'rags-to-rajah' fable won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and it's easy to see why. With its timely setting of a swiftly globalising India and, more specifically, the country's own version of the ""Who Wants"
"Reactions from India and the Indian diaspora to Slumdog Millionaire The 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire has been a subject of discussion among a variety of people in India and the Indian diaspora. Some film critics have responded positively to the film. At the same time, others objected to issues such as Jamal's use of British English or the fact that similar films by Indian filmmakers have not received equal recognition. A few notable filmmakers such as Aamir Khan and Priyadarshan have been critical of the film. Author and critic Salman Rushdie argues that it has ""a patently ridiculous conceit."" The"
"2008, the day Golden Globe nominations were announced, Chicago film critic Jan Lisa Huttner launched an online campaign questioning why Loveleen Tandan, the film's credited co-director, was not nominated along with Danny Boyle for Best Director. ""Knowing that Loveleen Tandan was a critical part of Slumdog's filmmaking and marketing phases,"" she wrote, ""how can we all sit by and watch while she's totally ignored in the awards phase?"" Huttner also provided statistics showing ""how rare it is for female directors to be in the awards race."" After learning of this campaign, Tandan sought to end it, stating, ""I can't tell"
"the film, Khan has stated that he does not regret turning the role down, and has been a vociferous supporter of the film to its critics. Paul Smith, the executive producer of ""Slumdog Millionaire"" and the chairman of Celador Films, previously owned the international rights to ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" In August 2007, Warner Independent Pictures acquired the North American rights and Pathé the international rights to distribute ""Slumdog Millionaire"" theatrically. However, in May 2008, Warner Independent Pictures was shut down, with all of its projects being transferred to Warner Bros., its parent studio. Warner Bros. doubted the"
"week following the Academy Awards. Worldwide, the film has currently grossed over $377 million, becoming Fox Searchlight Pictures's highest-grossing film ever (surpassing ""Juno""). The Australian 2008 release of ""Slumdog Millionaire"" was produced by Icon Film Distribution. ""Slumdog Millionaire"" was first shown at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2008, where it was positively received by audiences, generating ""strong buzz"". The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2008, where it was ""the first widely acknowledged popular success"" of the festival, winning the People's Choice Award. ""Slumdog Millionaire"" debuted with a limited North American release"
"2009 and won eightthe most for any 2008 filmincluding Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won seven BAFTA Awards including Best Film, five Critics' Choice Awards and four Golden Globes. However it was also the subject of controversy, especially in India, due to its portrayal of Indian society, the use of the word ""slumdog"" in the title and perceived exploitation of some of the younger actors. 18-year-old Jamal Malik, an Indian Muslim from the Dharavi slum, is a contestant on the Indian version of ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and is one question away from the"
"Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (, ) (born 1998) is an Indian child actor, who played the youngest version of Salim Malik in the Oscar-winning film ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, he has been cast in the Bollywood film ""Kal Kisne Dekha"" (2009). Like his on-screen character, Azaruddin came from one of the slums of Mumbai, living in the Garib Nagar slum near Bandra station. According to ""The Daily Telegraph"", ""his family's illegal hut was demolished by the local authorities and he now sleeps under a sheet of"
"was similar to ""Mano Ya Na Mano"". In 2008, he was featured as a narrator in an Arts Alliance production, id – Identity of the Soul. The performance toured worldwide, with tens of thousands turning out to see the event as it toured the West Bank. He also plays the police inspector in the 2008 film ""Slumdog Millionaire"", for which he and the cast of the movie won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. About him, Danny Boyle said, ""he has an instinctive way of finding the ""moral center"" of any"
"Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar () (born 5 March 1995) is an Indian actress best known for her 2008 role as the teenage version of 'Latika', a character in the Academy Award-winning film ""Slumdog Millionaire"". As a member of the cast of that film, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar is a recipient of the 15th Screen Actors Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture'. Lonkar was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Ganesh and Sharmila, and has a younger sister Janhavi. She speaks Marathi, Hindi and English fluently. She used to live in Goregaon, a far-flung"
"a Cast in a Motion Picture (shared with ten other cast members), and a 2008 British Independent Film Award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Ayush is also in ""Zara Nachke Dikha"" as a young dancer. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (Marathi: आयुष महेश खेडेकर; born 5 April 2000 in Mumbai) is an Indian child actor, best known for playing the child version of young Jamal Malik in ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Ayush is from Bhayandar, a distant Mumbai suburb, originally from Ratnagiri, KhedekarWadi and studies at the RBK School. His mother"
"He gets in and has a philosophical conversation with (a visible) Shroom. Billy tells Shroom ""I love you,"" then returns to the reality of the limo and Bravo Squad members, each of whom responds with ""I love you."" ""Slumdog Millionaire""s Oscar-winning screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy, was in 2014 adapting the novel for the screen, produced by Film4 in collaboration with a U.S. production company, The Ink Factory, and Sony Pictures' TriStar film studio division. Also involved in the production are China's Bona Film Group and Studio 8, which is backed by the Chinese conglomerate Fosun International. Ang Lee would direct the"
"Two films led the pack with just two wins each: ""Slumdog Millionaire"" took top honors in the Best Picture and Best Director (Danny Boyle) categories while ""The Dark Knight"" took Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger) and Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister). Along with the 11 ""best of"" category awards, the group also presented the Russell Smith Award to ""Wendy and Lucy"" as the ""best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film"" of the year. The award is named in honor of late ""Dallas Morning News"" film critic Russell Smith. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual"
"Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (Marathi: आयुष महेश खेडेकर; born 5 April 2000 in Mumbai) is an Indian child actor, best known for playing the child version of young Jamal Malik in ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Ayush is from Bhayandar, a distant Mumbai suburb, originally from Ratnagiri, KhedekarWadi and studies at the RBK School. His mother Sayali is a teacher in a Marathi medium school. His father Mahesh used to be a Marathi theatre actor, but he stopped acting after Ayush was born. Mahesh is currently an engineer with the Bombay"
"commercial prospects of ""Slumdog Millionaire"" and suggested that it would go straight to DVD without a US theatrical release. In August 2008, the studio began searching for buyers for various productions, to relieve its overload of end-of-the-year films. Halfway through the month, Warner Bros. entered into a pact with Fox Searchlight Pictures to share distribution of the film, with Fox Searchlight buying 50% of Warner Bros.'s interest in the movie and handling US distribution. Following its success at the 81st Academy Awards, the film topped the worldwide box office (barring North America), grossing $16 million from 34 markets in the"
"Chris Dickens Chris Dickens is a British film and television editor. His work on ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), directed by Danny Boyle, won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic. Chris went to Hailsham Community College in his teenage years and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 1990. He worked in television for a number of years, including a stint with the director Edgar Wright on the television series ""Spaced"". Dickens subsequently edited Wright's first feature film, ""Shaun of the Dead"" (2004). He"
"work on another project ""Vidayutham"" in 2013. The film was released on 18 March 2016. Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar () (born 5 March 1995) is an Indian actress best known for her 2008 role as the teenage version of 'Latika', a character in the Academy Award-winning film ""Slumdog Millionaire"". As a member of the cast of that film, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar is a recipient of the 15th Screen Actors Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture'. Lonkar was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Ganesh and Sharmila, and has a younger sister Janhavi."
"interest in the film and that's been our approach throughout and I think it's the right approach."" Won Nominated Rubina Ali Rubina Ali (born 21 January 1999), also known as Rubina Qureshi, is an Indian child actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, she was cast in the Bollywood film ""Kal Kisne Dekha"" (2009). Like her on-screen character, Rubina came from one of the slums of Mumbai, living in the Garib Nagar slum near Bandra station. She lives with"
"about his absence from the studio-generated hype, he shrugs: “The studio wanted to promote it as a love story.” In 2008 he was nominated for the Black Reel Awards of 2008 for Best Ensemble and in 2009, along with the entire cast of ""Slumdog Millionaire"" he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was also set to be present for the 66th Golden Globe Awards and the 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Mittal plays Anwar Razdan in the second series of ""Kidnap and"
"the New York Film Critics Online Awards (NYFCCO Awards), which awarded ""Best Director"" to ""Danny Boyle with Loveleen Tandan"". Loveleen Tandan Loveleen Tandan is an Indian film director and casting director. She is the ""Co-Director: India"" of the four time Golden Globe, seven time BAFTA Award and eight Academy Award winning (including best picture) ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), for which she shared a New York Film Critics Online Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival Award and Amanda Awards, Norway, of ""Best Director"" with Danny Boyle. She has also been the Casting Director for several other films, including the Golden Lion winning and"
"Sengupta, in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto, criticized the way in which Mumbai's poor were depicted, stating: Reactions from India and the Indian diaspora to Slumdog Millionaire The 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire has been a subject of discussion among a variety of people in India and the Indian diaspora. Some film critics have responded positively to the film. At the same time, others objected to issues such as Jamal's use of British English or the fact that similar films by Indian filmmakers have not received equal recognition. A few notable filmmakers such as"
"adult. ""Slumdog Millionaire"" paid homage to Salim-Javed by showing a montage sequence where two ""brothers jump off a train and suddenly they are seven years older"". In ""Slumdog Millionaire"", two characters have names referencing the duo: Salim K. Malik (brother of protagonist Jamal Malik) and Javed Khan (played by Mahesh Manjrekar). Salim-Javed also influenced Hong Kong cinema, where ""Deewaar"" was remade as ""The Brothers"" (1979). ""The Brothers"" went on to inspire John Woo's internationally acclaimed breakthrough ""A Better Tomorrow"" (1986), which involved a similar conflict between two brothers on opposing sides of the law, and set the template for the"
"on December 5, 2008. Were eligible all the films released in the United States from November 15, 2006 to November 14, 2008. The big winners were ""Slumdog Millionaire"" with four awards including ""Best Picture"", and ""The Dark Knight"" with four awards. Best Picture Top Ten Films Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Ensemble Cast Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Production Design Best Editing Best Original Score Best Visual Effects The winners of the ""2nd Edition"" were revealed on January 9, 2011. The nominees were revealed on December 5, 2010."
"nomination for Best Drama Series at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards. Patel reprised his role as Anwar for the second series of ""Skins"", which aired in February 2008. The second series of ""Skins"" won the Philips Audience Award at the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards. Patel made his feature film debut when he was cast in the role of Jamal Malik, the central character in Danny Boyle's film ""Slumdog Millionaire"". The Jamal Malik character is an Indian Muslim boy born and brought up in the poverty of Bombay, India. Boyle considered hundreds of young male actors, but found that Bollywood leads"
"cited ""Black Friday"" and ""Satya"" as the inspirations for his Academy Award-winning film ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008). Boyle stated that a chase in one of the opening scenes of ""Slumdog Millionaire"" was based on a ""12-minute police chase through the crowded Dharavi slum"" in ""Black Friday"". He also described ""Satya""'s ""slick, often mesmerizing"" portrayal of the Mumbai underworld, which included gritty and realistic ""brutality and urban violence,"" directly influenced the portrayal of the Mumbai underworld in ""Slumdog Millionaire"". Kashyap was first married to film editor Aarti Bajaj, with whom he has a daughter. They divorced in 2009. He later married actress"