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Slumdog Millionaire wins 4 Golden Globes

The prestigious Golden Globe Awards ceremony to honour the best in the world cinema began in Los Angeles. India-based story of an underdog, the Danny Boyle-directed Slumdog Millionaire in on a winning spree, first bagging the award for the Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Screenplay category (Simon Beaufoy), the Best Original Score (A R Rahman), and [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire Review

I am normally skeptical of raving movie reviews. I’m also wary of European or American filmmakers who set their stories in the shantytowns of the developing world because they tend to romanticize backwardness and peddle stereotypes. And I am suspicious of soap opera themes because they can be too syrupy. All of which made me [...]

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