The production company has set up for an autorickshaw driver to take the kids to school every day until they are 16 years old. The company, according to Danny Boyle, did not want to be associated with the poverty-stricken area, fearing that that might taint its image.ĭanny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the three lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. Mercedes-Benz asked that its logos be removed in scenes taking place in the slums. According to the film’s IMDb trivia page: There are a lot of interesting wrinkles behind the scenes as well. Articles like this one describe a stark split between those who feel the film is realistic and invaluable and those who feel it’s exaggerated and exploitive. Which makes me want to know what Indians make of the film. That said, Slumdog‘s depiction of Indian life, particularly the slum poverty, was incredibly interesting, at least to this American, even if only for its voyeurism. I am hardly the only one to feel that it is way overrated. Slumdog Millionaire, meanwhile, felt forced and predictable with shallow characterizations and stock movie tricks. It may have been that I simply cared more for the subject but it struck me as exceedingly well-written and conceived, with all the dramatic payoffs and random brain-pleasers you can hope for in a movie.
Not that my opinion counts for anything, but I thought Frost/Nixon was a far better film. It was a strange coincidence that both of them were time-jumping stories built around TV shows. I rarely have occasion these days to see new movies in theaters, but I had the good fortune recently to see two of the Oscar-nominated best films, Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire, within 24 hours.
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