Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire
Directed byDanny Boyle
Screenplay bySimon Beaufoy
Based onQ & A
by Vikas Swarup
Produced byChristian Colson
StarringDev Patel
Freida Pinto
Madhur Mittal
Anil Kapoor
Irrfan Khan
CinematographyAnthony Dod Mantle
Edited byChris Dickens
Music byA.R. Rahman
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé
Eros Entertainment
Release dates
  • 30 August 2008 (2008-08-30) (Telluride Film Festival)
  • 9 January 2009 (2009-01-09) (United Kingdom)
  • 23 January 2009 (2009-01-23) (India)[1]
Running time
120 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom[2][3][4]
India[5]
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi[1]
Budget$15 million[6]
Box office$377,910,544[6]

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2009 British-Indian drama movie based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A and directed by Danny Boyle. The movie has a different story from the book.[7] It follows a homeless Mumbai resident who becomes a contestant for the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Awards

Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards. It won the following eight:

It was also the highest-grossing film ever of an Indian film.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Slumdog Millionaire - Cast and Crew". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Screen International. 6 September 2008.
  3. ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  4. ↑ "Slumdog Millionaire". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ NDTV (Jan 23, 2009). "Slumdog Millionaire - NDTV". Anupama Chopra. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
  7. ↑ Jeffries, Stuart (16 January 2009). "Author Vikas Swarup on Slumdog Millionaire" – via www.theguardian.com.

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