After making waves overseas, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is all set to release in India in January.
"I don't know if he has seen Slumdog Millionaire. I know he wants to," White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters during the course of his daily press briefing.
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, an art house hit in America and Canada and which will roll out of across the United Kingdom next month, grabbed a trio of top awards at the British Independent Film Awards. The film, which is slowly adding extra theatres each week, was No 11 on the North American box-office chart for the weekend, earning $1.36 million, taking its total to $3.6 million. It is in 49 theatres, having added 17 over the weekend.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated in the following BAFTA categories: Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film.
Ayush Manesh Khedekar who played young Jamal in the Oscar-winning movie is in Cannes to promote his latest movie Shyam's Secret.
Slumdog Millionaire not only getting the some of the best reviews in recent years but also doing brisk business in arthouses. The Danny Boyle directed film, focusing on three slum children in Mumbai and their tryst with fate as grown-ups, grossed a highly promising $420,000 in just five days in 10 theatres in North American cities.
Composer A R Rahman on the sounds of Slumdog Millionaire.
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The Oscar winning sound designer is behind the sound of his first Malayalam film, Pazhassi Raja.
President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, music director A R Rahman and noted lyricist Gulzar on Sunday watched the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire at the Rashtrapati Bhavan auditorium in New Delhi. Oscar awardee Resul Pookuty and Vikas Swarup, on whose novel Q and A the movie is based, also attended the screening. According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson, the two-hour-long special screening was exclusively organised for the President.
AR Rahman has been nominated in several categories for his compositions from the Oscar-winning movie.
This is the second time in Oscar history that a film shot in India has become number one film worldwide; the previous record setter was Gandhi released in 1982. But Slumdog is selling far more tickets than Gandhi.
For one, in India the digitisation of content, at least from a scale point of view, is only now beginning to take off.
After writing and directing the hugely popular movie about a bunch of male strippers, Simon Beaufoy, directed the Anil Kapoor starrer Slumdog Millionaire. He recounts how he went about it and how India continues to amaze him.
Singh was not really the Kinng when it came to competing with Slumdog Millionaire, the underdog saga shot entirely in Mumbai, which won the People's Choice Award at the end of the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend. Akshay Kumar's film was one of the 250 feature films from more than 60 countries, eligible for the award.
The reviews -- mainly from the United Kingdom and the United States, where the film was released first -- for Slumdog Millionaire compete with each other in discovering superlatives.
Indian music maestro A R Rahman struck gold once again, bagging two trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles for his music in Slumdog Millionaire.
The DVD offers insights on how the toilet sequence and many others were shot.
'If I get posted to a place, if people engage with me just as an Indian diplomat, I have X amount of leverage.' 'But when they look at me as the high commissioner of India and the author of Slumdog Millionaire, many more people are willing to meet me, more quickly than they would as a pure diplomat.'
Composer Sidhant Bhatia, singer Raja Kumari, singer-producer Raghav Mehta and mixing engineer Deepak PA talk about Sounds of Kumbha, which is shortlisted for the Grammys in the Best Global Music Album category.
Freida Pinto is all set to star in a new series adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri's acclaimed short story collection Unaccustomed Earth.
Money fuels greed - the Satyam scam is proof of that - but for a few lucky winners, television game shows have been a ticket out of poverty and to fame. Abhilasha Ojha speaks to our own slumdog millionaires.
Anupam Kher's directorial Tanvi The Great is all set for its grand premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and the team is already turning heads.
Slumdog Millionaire might have won accolades the world over but parents of two children starring in the rags-to-riches tale set in Mumbai have accused the producers of exploitation.
The Prime Minister "congratulates A R Rahman, Resul Pookutty (sound engineer), Gulzar (lyricist), and entire Slumdog Millionaire team for the success at the Oscars," a PMO spokesperson said. Singh said "they have done India proud".
In addition to being nominated in the best picture, director, adapted screenplay and music categories for the Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire is also expected to be nominated for cinematography, editing and costumes.
Fox Star Studio India, the distributor of Slumdog Millionaire in the country, has managed to gross around Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million) from the markets, surpassing collections of some of the biggest Bollywood hits of last year such as Rock On.
SlumDog Millionaire has won over the Western audiences with its 'fairy tale in a Mumbai slum' storyline but back home the film has opened up a heated debate about the stereotyped representation of India and Mumbai in the Western films.
Slumdog Millionaire, which was orphaned a few months ago when distributor Warner Independent folded into the parent company, consolidated its Oscar nomination chances last week winning a slew of key awards and being nominated for four Golden Globes.
Delhi slum boy and National Award winner for I Am Kalam, Harsh Mayar, aspires for a better life.
'We met Gulzar sahab at his residence to honour him with the Jnanpith Award. Gulzar sahab's son-in-law Govind Sandhu, filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, his wife Rekha, and a few writers were present on this occasion.'
Slumdog Millionaire is contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, a pseudo-statement about social justice. And yet today the film stands on the precipice of Hollywood's highest honour, the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Slumdog Millionaire has bagged five prestigious prizes including Best Composer award for Indian music maestro A R Rahman at Broadcast Film Critics Association's 14th annual Critics Choice Awards.
Vikas Swarup, whose debut novel was made into the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, has been appointed as spokesperson in the external affairs ministry.
The comic book movie, which has seen various efforts to bring it to the screen over the last two decades, grossed over the weekend a decent but unspectacular $83 million, nearly 55 percent of it in North America. Slumdog, which was number one film for just one week in its dream run worldwide, made about $18 million. It lost about 35 percent of its box-office clout after having soared to the top amidst post Oscar celebrations.
Mohammed Ismail, died in Mumbai after a long battle with tuberculosis.
Rubina Ali's slum home was demolished this morning.
The latest episode of 10 Ka Dum pits the Slumdog kids against TZP's Darsheel, and promises to be an eye-opener.
Simbu dubs for Dev Patel while S P Balasubramanian dubs for Anil Kapoor in the Tamil version of the hit film.
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