The cinematography in Slumdog Millionaire combines Bollywood lushness with rhythmic music and fast cutting – all heavily dosed with in-your-face closeups. It’s a jarring, pulsating visual world that will appeal to a TV-oriented crowd, but there are not many shots evoking contemplative reflection on the proceedings. In addition, the camera angles come from all directions, thereby lessening the potential intimacy of the subjective perspective. We are watching Jamal from every possible angle, as external observers, but that technique reduces our identification with his personal point of view. This all-angles cinematography is reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Melville, who typically created a visual milieu in which his characters were inserted and observed as if they were part of his bleak, noirish landscape. Nevertheless, in Slumdog Millionaire, there are so many closeups of actors Dev Patel and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (who play older Jamal in the present and the younger Jamal in flashback, respectively) that the viewer can identify with Jamal and champion his cause.
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Funding of Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire cost $15 million to make. (£8.7 million)

"Paul Smith, the chairman of Celador, which put up £7 million to finance Slumdog, said he was “extremely happy” with the American distribution deal. “The more successful the film is over there the more money will flow back into Britain,” he said, adding that he expected to make “close to £10 million profit”. Fox Searchlight and Warner Bros stand to clear around $40 million in profit from US ticket sales alone, industry sources said."


"The European Union (EU) on Monday took pride in funding the film "Slumdog Millionaire," which won the Best Picture and seven other Academy Awards.
The British film was co-funded under the EU's film support program MEDIA. "

"Slumdog Millionaire" received 830,000 euros (1 million U.S. dollars) from the MEDIA program for distribution in 2008 and 2009.The total budget of the film is estimated at 11 million euros (14 million dollars)."

THE CREW

DANNY BOLYE - Director
One of the UK’s finest directors, Danny Boyle has a wide spectrum of critically acclaimed and commercially successful film credits: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Alien Love Triangle, 28 Days Later, Millions and Sunshine. Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically released film. 




SIMON BEAUFOY -Writer
Simon Beaufoy trained at Bournemouth College of Art and Design as a documentary director then took to writing. His screenwriting credits include The Full Monty, Among Giants, The Darkest Light, Yasmin and This is Not a Love Song.  Filming has just finished on his latest script, two-part thriller, ‘Burn Up’, which is based around the politics of oil depletion and climate change. It premiered on BBC2 in June 2008, and starred Neve Campbell, Rupert Penry-Jones and Bradley Whitford.  After adapting Q and A (Slumdog Millionaire) Simon is now adapting the novel, ‘The Raw Shark Texts’ for Film4.

CAST and CHARACTERS OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

DEV PATAL - Jamal
Dev was the lead in Slumdog millioniare, he was picked from an open casting of hundreds to play to the role of Anwar in the Channel 4 cult series 'Skins'. In which lead him to become well-known and was picked to play Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire.

ANIL KAPOOR - Prem
One of the most versatile and successful actors in Hindi Films.

IRRFAN KHAN - Inspector
Irrfan is from Jaipur, India.

MADHUR MITTAL - Salim
Madhur was born in Agra, a small town in North India well known for the Taj Mahal.

FREIDA PINTO - Latika
Freida graduated from St Xavier's College in Mumbai and in 2005 was signed up to Elite Model Agency in India. Slumdog Millionaire was her first lead role in a feature film.

The Producer - CHRISTIAN COLSON

"After graduating with a first class degree in English from Wadham College, Oxford, Christian joined talent agency London Management in 1994 where he represented writers working in the television, theatre and film industries. 

In 1998 he became a Development Executive at UK start-up HAL Films, becoming Head of Development a year later. Following the demise of HAL in 2000, he was appointed Head of Development UK for Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films. 

Christian joined Celador Films in 2002 where, as Managing Director he oversees all of the company’s operations. While at Celador, Christian has produced Julian Fellowes’ Separate Lies (2005), Neil Marshall’s worldwide horror hit The Descent (2005) and James Watkins’ forthcoming thriller Eden Lake (2008)."   


Slumdog millionaire the film originated from the novel 'Q&A".
"The simple premise of Swarup’s novel enabled Beaufoy to concentrate on two key elements when adapting the story into a screenplay. Firstly, the obvious rags to riches fairytale, where our hero overcomes enormous obstacles to reach a positive conclusion. Secondly, the extraordinary backdrop against which the story is set. But there were many technical difficulties. The adaptation of a book into a film script requires a very different approach for a writer than producing an original screenplay. The challenge for Beaufoy was to retain the soul of the book, but at the same time, translate those characters onto the big screen."

Film 4: Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire was created by Channel 4, which is in association with Film4. The Film is set in India, where Jamal Malik is being beaten by Mumbai police for allegedly cheating on hit TV show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionare?' One question away from the ultimate 20 millin rupee prize, no one, believes a Chai Wallah (teaboy) like Jamal could know all the answers.
The Film provides awareness of such poverty in India and children's life's, in doing so, it made this film a multi-Oscar-winning fable.
With the Director Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan and the famous leading character Dev Patal, this has truey made it a world wide leading film.


Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight of them. The film also won seven BAFTA Awards, five Critics Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes.