Slumdog Millionire trailer

Consumption

How was the film consumed in the UK?

 The film was very well received in the UK and won lots of awards. In the opening weekend Slumdog Millionaire made £1,827,457, it was screened in over 300 cinemas. On Amazon Slumdog Millionaire is 40th on the best sellers list. The average customer review is 3 and a half stars, which is not too bad.  

   On Amazon people have reviewed the film and it has been very well praised; one man says 'Slumdog Millionaire deserves a place among the masterpieces of world cinema'  he aslso rates it 5 stars. Another woman also admits how at first she did not want to see the film as she thought it would be a 'drippy foreign film' she says it is far from what she thought and the film had even moved her to tears. On Amazon all i could see was positive comments. Which shows what a an amazing film it was. 

Budget

The film was projected to cost US$15 million, so Celador the british production company, sought a U.S. distributor to share costs. Fox Searchlight Pictures made an initial offer that was reportedly in the $2 million range, but Warner Independent Pictures made a $5 million offer to win rights to the picture.

Music

The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was composed by A.R.Radman, he completed it in two weeks. Danny Boyle has said that he chose Rahman because "not only does he draw on Indian classical music, but he's got R&B and hiphop coming in from America, house music coming in from Europe and this incredible fusion is created." Rahman won the 2009 Golden Globe award for best score and won two out of three nominations for the Academy Award, including one for Best oringinal score and one for best original song for ''Jai Ho''. The song ''O...Saya'' got a nomination shared with M.I.A.. and the song ''Jai Ho'' won the Oscar, which A. R. Rahman shared with lyricist Gulzar.

Dev Patal and Freida Pinto

Cast

Slumdog millionaire did not use well known characters to the film industry. Dev Patel got the leading role; Danny Boyle considered hundreds of young Bollywood actors, but Boyle's daughter pointed Dev Patal out from his role in the television drama Skins. The lead girl Freida Pinto was an indian model who had never been in a feature film before. By using fresh new actors and actresses, it made Slumdog millionaire different and stand out from other films. People wanted to watch this fresh new film. The film was a big hit.

Production

In the summer of 2006, British production companies Celador films and Film4 productions invited director Danny Boyle to read the script of slumdog millionaire. Boyle initially hesitated, since he was not interested in making a film about Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, which was produced by Celador. However, Boyle soon found out that the screenwriter was Beaufoy, who had written The Full Monty , one of the director's favourite British Films, and decided to revisit the script.