Slumdog Millionaire 7.5
I admit to a personal aversion to Indian poverty and I favor realism to highly improbable stories, but this movie plugged into the energy of Mumbai and swept me along until, best of all, a curtain call in which the cast sang and danced and all the sordidness, violence, corruption and depressing poverty was temporarily washed away. In all, a paean to the escapism of entertainment. Still, this was not the best Indian movie of the year – and why Amal has not been released here remains a mystery.
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