US critics go gaga over ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) Film critics in the US are raving about ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, British director Danny Boyle’s latest offering adapted from Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup’s bestselling novel ‘Q & A’, with some predicting it will go to the Oscars.
From syndicated film critic Roger Ebert, whose reviews get published in 200 US newspapers to mainstream dailies like the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today, praise for the film that stars Bollywood’s Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan has come from all over.
‘This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from rags to riches on the strength of his lively intelligence,’ said Ebert. ‘The film’s universal appeal will present the real India to millions of moviegoers for the first time.’
‘When I saw ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ at Toronto, I was witnessing a phenomenon: dramatic proof that a movie is about how it tells itself,’ he said, calling it ‘one of those miraculous entertainments that achieves its immediate goals and keeps climbing toward a higher summit’.
‘It’s hard to hold onto any reservations in the face of Mr. Boyle’s resolutely upbeat pitch and seductive visual style,’ said the New York Times. ‘It’s an undeniably attractive package, a seamless mixture of thrills and tears, armchair tourism …and crackerjack professionalism.’
‘Both the reliably great Irrfan Khan (‘A Mighty Heart’), as a sadistic detective, and the Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, as the preening game-show host, run circles around the young Mr. Patel, an agreeable enough if vague centrepiece to all this coordinated, insistently happy chaos,’ it said.
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14 November 2008 12:48pm - Entertainment ||
