His co-star Frieda Pinto, who plays love interest Latika, was born and brought up in Mumbai and knows the city well. Watch Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto talking about the making of "Slumdog Millionaire." ...

Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, “Slumdog Millionaire” is a blast. Danny Boyle’s film uses the dilemma of a poor teenager suspected of cheating ...

A Slumdog Millionaire musical is in the works! Tony-award-winning producer Ken Davenport has secured the rights to develop a theatrical adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 2008 film, which ...

Dev Patel is poised to attract Oscar’s attention. How did he get here? A) He listened to his mother. B) He was on the right TV show at the right time. C) He did his research. D) He weathered a ...

“Slumdog Millionaire” is not the cure for all the world’s ills, but it comes close. It solves, for instance, such endemic global problems as: a) sadness, b) lovelessness, c) cynicism, and d) the ...

The film's eight trophies -- including best picture, direction, adapted screenplay and cinematography -- cement the reputation of Fox Searchlight as a champion of work that Hollywood won't risk.

Slumdog Millionaire is a low-budget R-rated movie shot entirely in India with no stars, filmed partially in Hindi, and based on the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It’s also a ...

If Charles Dickens were a contemporary director making a movie about India in its current moment of dizzying transition, he might well come up with something very close to Danny Boyle's magical ...

Every souse scribbling with golf pencils Tuesdays at the Flying Saucer’s trivia night has the same dream: that somehow, the particular questions that night might align with the useless knowledge ...

Jamal Malik, a slum kid from the streets of Mumbai, not only makes it onto the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? But he also manages to win.Now winning a fortune on a game show would ...

Slumdog Millionaire is not the cure for all the world’s ills, but it comes close. It solves, for instance, such endemic global problems as: a) sadness, b) lovelessness, c) cynicism, and d) the ...

Slumdog Millionaire moves with the lickety-split pace of the city in which it's set, Mumbai, where slums become high-rises within a decade and even the smallest children are out to make a buck ...