Slumdog Millionaire is beyond doubt a good movie, especially in terms of production value. The attempt has been to portray a realistic picture of India. However, I feel the film also had a fairy tale aspect to it. The underlying plot is the same old 'rags to riches formula'. On the other hand I recently watched the movie Barah Aana at the Pune Film Festival, and was overwhelmed by it. The story is based in today's Mumbai and highlights the social problems that a commonplace man faces in real life. You can read more about the plot at http://barah-aana-the-film.blogspot.com/. I found the depiction and the circumstances quite natural. The plot was gripping, full of action and suspense. Performances by Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz, along with the entire cast is very powerful. In my opinion it's going to be one of the best movies in 2009. So if you've found Slumdog interesting, this is one movie that you should be watching out for.... 

really a very nice film :)

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i agree.
its not a movie directed by an Indian anyway.
The music has a lot of touch of Arabic.

And its ironic how movies that show the poverty of India are always given importance. Our country has also progressed a lot and there isn't one movie that deals with the issues of the country . The ones that do are termed low budget small movies.

I think Slumdog wouldn't have been considered this good if it had some Indiand instead od Danny Boyle behind it. 

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In my opinion, Slumdog is nt at all a superb movie.It only shows the slums and wrong about India which has taken the message around the world that India is like this. People all over the world will never get to know what India ia all about.Only movies can let them know however, a movie like slumdog has alltogether passed a different message that India is only about SLUMS ,ch*ating, b*ggery and nothing else....
Eitherways foreginers has this misconception that India is like this, This is the time to show them that what India has achieved over the years... JAGO JAGO JAGO RE..... 

i like this becoz iam proud of an indian always help each other.............people ...this movie is very fantastics...& it makes very hard practice and hardworking....in this small child becozhe was very hardworker ............i become make actor....its my dream......... 

Well first of all one needs to know what they mean by super. how do they define super is it something unique that has never been shown in foreign or indian cinema or is it something that the people can relate to etc. I would say it was unique in its own way since it had a lot of realism to it. the reason why it got so much hype was that first of all it was not made by a indian director and secondly before it was realesed in india foreign media gave it the height that it would not have achieved if it had been made by bollywood and also it was based around one of the most popular shows around the world (who wants to be a millionaire). i think all this pretty much sums it up and this is what makes it more than it is in india. 

accordomg to me this is not a superb movie but foreingers has made this movie superb ya! the song JAI HO is little but ok coz of A R REHMAN but actually saying the movie is nt dt much good i dn't understand y and how people liked i t so much?
in fact TZP really deserve this oscar coz this situation can be faced to any indvidual weather he/she is indian foreigner.
TZP is rally awasome movie. 

Yes slumdog Milnaire is the best movie for Indian
because this film inspire to do something in life
if we have good talent poverty will not be bar for us
 

I agree with you, and the worst part is that the people who were not aware about India are now aware about what kind of a country is it after watching this movie and one can make it very easily in what sense they know India now. They think its all about slums, it was really good to see the very big artists of our industry rejecting to work in the movie, for the role of Anil Kapoor, first it was Amitabh Bachanji and then Mr. Shahrukh Khan and then Anil Kapoor worked for the role.
As an piece of art the movie is very good but not as a story.....