Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a British film directed by Danny Boyle written by Simon Beaufoy and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan which is released on the 9th January 2008 .It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The genre of this film is crime, drama and romance. The story lines included in this film are love and money.

The story of this film is about a Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers for all the answers and wins the millions.
The distributers of this film are Pathé Pictures International (UK/Europe), Fox Searchlight Pictures (US/Canada) and Warner Bros. Pictures. The producer of this film is Christian Colson.

Slumdog Millionaire is highly acclaimed, named in the top ten lists of various newspapers. On 22 February 2009 the film won eight out of ten Academy Awards it was nominated for, including the Best Picture and Best Director- Danny Boyle, Best Adapted Screenplay- Simon Beaufoy, Best Cinematography - Anthony Dod Mantle, Best Sound Mixing - Resul Pookutty, Best Film Editing - Chris Dickens, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song (two songs were nominated from the film; "Jai Ho" won the award), losing only Best Sound Editing to The Dark Knight. It is only the eighth film ever to win eight Academy Awards and the eleventh Best Picture Oscar winner without a single acting nomination.

The film has been marketted by putting posters, billboards in the public places, through blogs, websites, etc.

The film was in the London film festival. The festival could hardly have ended in more rousing style. Its closing film, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, was one of a kind liable to send audiences happily skipping out into the cold London night. Yet on paper this British production, partly subtitled and with no stars known in the West, looked an unlikely prospect.
The film also won the People's Choice Award at the end of the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF. it was also in the Telluride Film Festival.

The film is targetted on a larger audience. People from any age can watch this movie. This is one of the main characteristic which made the movie won many Oscars.This movies shows the poverty and the way people are struggling and also shows how an ordinary guy from the slums in India won the millions.

The film also won all four of the Golden Globe Awards it was nominated for, including Best Drama Film; five of the six Critics' Choice Awards for which it was nominated; and seven of the eleven BAFTA Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Film.



The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman, who planned the score for over two months and completed it in two weeks. Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won two out of three nominations for the Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song. The song "O... Saya" got a nomination shared with M.I.A., and the song "Jai Ho" won the Oscar, which A. R. Rahman shared with lyricist Gulzar.


There are examples of synergy as when the film was released, there were many ways in which the film was marketted. This might include correlation between different countries which made them work together for the great sucess of the film.