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Directed by	Danny Boyle Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)
Produced by	Christian Colson
Written by	Simon Beaufoy Vikas Swarup (novel)
Starring	Dev Patel Freida Pinto Anil Kapoor Irrfan Khan Rubina Ali Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Madhur Mittal Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail Tanay Chheda Saurabh Shukla Mahesh Manjrekar
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	Anthony Dod Mantle
Editing by	Chris Dickens
Studio	Pathé Film4 Celador Films
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures (USA) Pathé (UK)
Release date(s)	12 November 2008 (US, limited) 9 January 2009 (UK) 23 January 2009 (India) 23 January 2008 (US, wide) 14 February 2009 (Malaysia)
Running time	120 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English Hindi
Budget	$15 million
Gross revenue	$159,226,072

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Freida Pinto

Mini Biography

Height

5′ 6″ (1.68 m)  Frieda Pinto official  fan site

Freida Pinto was born in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, now a principal of St. John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. Her family hails from the Mangalorean Catholic community, a Christian community in Mumbai. Her Father Frederick is from Neerude and Mother Sylvia from Derebail, both towns near Mangalore. Her elder sister Sharon Pinto is an associate producer on the NDTV news channel. Pinto completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She currently resides in the Malad suburb of Mumbai.

She is also trained in different forms of Indian classical dance as well as Salsa.

Freida Pinto started her career in modeling  in Mumbai where  she was represented by Elite Model Management of India for two years before getting her big acting break. After 6 months of auditions and getting on the short candidates list she recieved a call from  Danny Boyle who picked her out in the audition process to play the female lead, Latika, for his latest project, Slumdog Millionaire.

Freida, who studied at Mumbai’s St. Xaviers College ironically she didn’t study theatrical arts there. She has however done amateur theatre before. She also has studied at John Barry’s acting studio. Slumdog is her her debut film.

Between 2006-07, she anchored ‘Full Circle’, a travel show which was telecast on Zee International Asia Pacific. She went on assignments to Afghanistan,Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore,Indonesia and Fiji among other countries. Frieda also was featured in several television and print commercials for products such as  Wrigleys chewing gum,  Škoda, Hutch, Airtel and De Beers. Frieda Pinto official  fan site and gallery.

all excerpts are from Wikipedia.com

Dev Patel

          Mini Biography            

Dev Patel plays the penniless

          Mumbai orphan from the slums          

     

Dev Patel was born in Brent, Greater London, England, to Hindu Gujarati Indian parents, both of whom were born in Nairobi, Kenya. His mother Anita Patel is a carer and his father Raj Patel an IT consultant. Dev Patel, who grew up in Harrow, attended Longfield Primary School and later went to Whitmore High School, receiving an A* in GCSE Drama, for his “self-penned portrayal of a child in the Beslan school siege”. His drama teacher Niamh Wright has stated: “Dev was a gifted student who quickly impressed me with his innate ability to communicate a wide variety of characters imaginatively and creatively.  He was awarded full marks for his GCSE performance to a live audience and the visiting examiner was moved to tears by his honest portrayal of a child in the Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia.” He eventually completed his AS Levels in 2007, while he was working in Skins.

Martial Artist

Patel started training at the Rayners Lane Academy of Taekwon-do in 2000. He competed regularly in both national and international championships, including the 2004 AIMAA (Action International Martial Arts Association) World Championships in Dublin, where he won a bronze medal. The World Championships took place in October 2004, when he was a red belt competing in the junior division against other red and black belts. He made it to the semi-finals, where he lost to a black belt in “a very close and tough fight unfortunately by a couple of points in extra time”, and ended up winning a bronze medal. He later gained a 1st dan (rank) black belt on 11 March 2006.

Acting Career

Patel began his acting career in late 2006, when he auditioned for the E4 TV teen drama series Skins. After two auditions, he was cast in the role of Anwar Kharral, a British Pakistani Muslim teenager. According to fellow actors Mike Bailey (who played Sid Jenkins) and Hannah Murray (who played Cassie Ainsworth), the characterization of Anwar was partly based on the personality of Patel and the role was written specifically for him after he was cast in Skins. The first series of the show aired in early 2007 and went on to receive two nominations at the BAFTA Television Awards. Patel resumed his role as Anwar for the second series of Skins, which aired in early 2008.

In August 2007, Patel was cast in the role of Jamal Malik, the central character in Danny Boyle’s independent film Slumdog Millionaire. Patel, who appeared on The Today Show with co-star Freida Pinto on 11 November 2008, stated he was chosen for the role of Jamal due to his “average Joe” appearance. He also stated that it was Boyle’s daughter, a fan of Skins, who initially recommended Patel for the role. The character Jamal Malik, the protagonist, is an Indian Muslim boy born and raised in the poverty of Mumbai, India. Boyle considered hundreds of young male actors, although he found that Bollywood leads were generally “strong, handsome hero-types”, not the personality he was looking for. Boyle’s 17-year-old daughter Caitlin pointed him to the British television ensemble drama Skins, of which Patel was a cast member. After five auditions for the role, the actor was eventually cast in August 2007, The film’s producer found the original choice for the lead role, Ruslaan Mumtaz, “too good looking for the role and so he was replaced by Dev Patel”. To prepare for the role, Patel went along with Boyle while scouting for filming locations, where he was able to observe the Dharavi slums for himself. He also reported having had a brief internship at a call centre and working in a hotel, where he spent a day washing dishes and generally observing life in Mumbai.

After the release of Slumdog Millionaire at the end of 2008, Patel went on to receive a number of awards for his performance, including a British Independent Film Award, National Board of Review (NBR) Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and two Black Reel Awards for Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance. On 18 December 2008, it was announced that Patel was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. The award eventually went posthumously to the late Heath Ledger for his performance in The Dark Knight, though Patel did win the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which he shared with ten other cast members from Slumdog Millionaire. On 8 January 2009, Patel was honoured with the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Performer. He was also nominated for two London Critics Circle Film Awards, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Leading Actor. The film itself won four Golden Globes, including Best Drama Film, and eight Academy Awards.

In 2008, Patel auditioned for a role in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, a feature film adaptation of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. In February 2009, it was announced that Patel has replaced Jesse McCartney for the role of Prince Zuko, after McCartney’s tour dates conflicted with a boot camp scheduled for the cast to train in martial arts. Shyamalan stated that Patel was “already one of the guys I was interested in. Then I saw Slumdog Millionaire, and the kid just grew in my eyes”.

**all excerpts and information are from wikipedia.com

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Slumdog millionaire ‘the cool kid actors’

 

from bottom left   Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Rubina Ali, and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar  

from top left       Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar and Tanay Hemant Chheda                                                                                                      

the cool kids enjoying universal studios

                     

                                                Rubina Ali Tanay Chheda, Tanvi Ganish, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala

Tanay Hemant Chheda is an Indian child actor. He has worked in the critically acclaimed films Taare Zameen Par (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.

Film Career

Tanay Chheda has worked in three films: Don – The Chase Begins Again in 2006, Taare Zameen Par in 2007, and Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. In Don, he played the role of Dipu, the son of Jasjit (played by Arjun Rampal). In Taare Zameen Par, he played Rajan Damodaran, a handicapped child who is a friend and classmate of the protagonist Ishaan (played by Darsheel Safary). In Slumdog Millionaire, Chheda played the role of Jamal Malik, in adolescence, for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.

                                                                                                    

Madhur Mittal plays the  reckless older Salim    

                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

Madhur Mittal was born in Agra, a small town in North India well known for the Taj Mahal. In 1997, Madhur won Boogle Woogle a popular reality-based dance show on Indian television. Shortly after, his family moved to Mumbai and Madhur forayed into acting and dancing on stage in charity shows, cultural events and film-award ceremonies. He traveled the world performing in over 950 stage shows. As a child actor he worked in well known Hindi films like One Two Ka Four, Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye, and more recently Say Salaam India. He has also acted in several TV shows including Shakalaka Boom Boom, Kasauti Zindagi Ki, Jalwa, Chamatkar and Dastak.

Rubina Ali, Tanay Hemant Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala,Tanvi Ganish, (bottom left)Ayush Makkesh Khedekar and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail

The game show host

                                        Mini Biography

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Anil Kapoor plays the game show host

                                                                                                                                                                                         

Anil Kapoor was born on December 24, 1958, in a chawl in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai, India, to a film producer Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal Kapoor. He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, Chembur. Coming from a film-oriented family, Kapoor’s elder brother, Boney Kapoor, is a producer while younger brother Sanjay Kapoor is also a well known Bollywood actor, though not as successful.

In 1984, he married Sunita Kapoor (née Bhambhani) and had two daughters and a son. Kapoor’s elder daughter is the actress Sonam Kapoor. As of 2008, his other daughter, Rhea, is studying in New York while his son Harsh is still in school.

He is the brother-in-law of the actress Sridevi with whom he has starred in many films. His sister Reena is married to Sandeep Marwah, founder of the Noida Film City.

Acting Career

Kapoor made his Bollywood debut with Umesh Mehra’s Hamare Tumhare (1979) in a supporting role. After a few minor roles in films such as Hum Paanch (1980) and Shakti (1982), he got his first leading role in the 1983 Hindi film, Woh Saat Din. Kapoor later tried acting in Tollywood and Kollywood, and appeared in the Telugu film Vamsa Vriksham and Mani Ratnam’s Kannada debut film Pallavi Anu Pallavi.

Next, followed a critically acclaimed performance in Yash Chopra’s drama Mashaal (1984), for which he won his first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actor category. Going on to deliver commercial success with films like Meri Jung (1985) and Karma (1986), Kapoor won acclaim for his title role in Shekhar Kapur’s sci-fi film Mr. India (1987). The film became one of his biggest box office hits and shot him to superstar status.

In 1988, he was rewarded with his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in the hit film, Tezaab. The following year he delivered more commercial success with Ram Lakhan, Parinda and Rakhwala. The year 1990, saw him play a dual role, as twin brothers in the successful Kishen Kanhaiya. Anil Kapoor won critical acclaim for his performance in Eeshwar, co-starring Vijaya Shanti. With these successes, Anil Kapoor was widely acknowledged as the industry’s biggest star at the time. This was followed by a critically acclaimed performance as a middle aged man in Yash Chopra’s romantic drama Lamhe. Although the film was a box office failure in India, it proved to be a success overseas.

In 1992, Kapoor received his second Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in Indra Kumar’s Beta opposite Madhuri Dixit. In 1993, Boney Kapoor’s much delayed mega-budget Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja was a disaster at box office and damaged Anil Kapoor’s reputation as the industry biggest star at the time. The only major success in these years was Laadla with Sridevi, a film also produced by Boney Kapoor.

After a period of little box office success, he had box office success with films like Judaai (1997), Deewana Mastana (1997), Biwi No.1 (1999), Loafer (1996), Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999) and Taal (1999).. He also won critical acclaim for his strong performance in Virasat, a remake of Tamil film in which Kamal Hasan had played Anil Kapoor’s role.

The great showman director Subash Ghai has said in a TV show that Anil Kapoor is the only actor which always give full sactisfaction in his films. They have worked in more than 5 films. And others directors have the same views.

He won his first National Film Award in the Best Actor category for his role in Rajkumar Santoshi’s critically acclaimed Pukar in 2000. Following films from 2001 to 2004 failed to do well but Kapoor won acclaim for his role in the thriller My Wife’s Murder (2005), which he also produced. Anees Bazmee’s super-hit comedy No Entry followed for Kapoor that year. The film became the highest grossing film of the year and Kapoor’s comic-timing was applauded.

Kapoor’s most recent films, Anees Bazmee’s Welcome, which released on December 21, 2007, did very well at the box office. His first 2008 release Abbas Mustan’s thriller Race became a box office hit too. But Vijay Krishna Acharya’s Tashan, which marked Anil’s comeback to Yash Raj Films failed to do well at the box office. His most recent films were his first English-language film Slumdog Millionaire, which released on 12 November 2008, and Yuvvraaj, which released on 21 November 2008. Yuvvraaj, with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, has failed to do well at the box office. On the other hand, Slumdog Millionaire has won a number of international awards and received rave reviews from critics across the globe, costing only US $15 million to produce, but pulling in more than $40 million in the first three months of opening. In January 2009, he attended the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony along with the team of Slumdog Millionaire, which won four Golden Globe Awards. Kapoor also received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008 and has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Producer

In 2002, Kapoor produced his first film, the comedy Badhaai Ho Badhaai, in which he also starred in, but the film failed to do well. Next followed, the critically acclaimed thriller My Wife’s Murder (2005), which also didn’t do well at the box office. His next produced film, Gandhi, My Father, which focuses on the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Harilal Gandhi released on August 3, 2007. Despite being acclaimed by critics and audiences, the film failed to do well.

Kapoor is currently producing the film, Shortcut – The Con Is On

words from the director Danny Boyle

Mini Biography

Danny Boyle (born 20 October, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning British director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, Sunshine, and 28 Days Later. In 2009 Boyle won an Academy Award for Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire.

Background

Boyle was born in Radcliffe (historically a part of Lancashire), into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, County Galway, and his father was born in England to an Irish family.

When he was 14 Boyle applied to transfer from his local school to a seminary, but a priest warned him against it. In a recent interview he stated:

“Whether he was saving me from the priesthood or saving the priesthood from me, I don’t know. But quite soon after, I started doing drama.

He later wrote a treatise about the activities of Christian missionaries in British India called Spiritual Glory of British Empire:Guiding souls in India. He studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and at Bangor University. While at university, Boyle dated the actress Frances Barber.

Career

Theater

He began his career in the theatre, first with the Joint Stock Theatre Company and then with the Royal Court Theatre, where he was Artistic Director from 1982 until 1985 and Deputy Director between 1985 and 1987. His productions during this period included Howard Barker’s Victory, Howard Brenton’s The Genius and Edward Bond’s Saved, which won the Time Out Award. Boyle also directed five productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Television

In 1980, Boyle started working in television as a producer for BBC Northern Ireland, where he produced, amongst other TV films, Alan Clarke’s controversial Elephant before becoming a director on shows such as Arise And Go Now, Not Even God Is Wise Enough, For The Greater Good, Scout and two episodes of Inspector Morse (“Masonic Mysteries” and “Cherubim and Seraphim”). He was also responsible for the highly acclaimed BBC2 series, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins.

Films

Boyle made his feature film directorial debut with Shallow Grave, a small-scale but well-received success.  Next followed the film Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.

Boyle rose to prominence along with writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald and actor Ewan McGregor, in the internationally acclaimed Trainspotting, after which he moved to Hollywood to seek a production deal with a major US studio. He declined an offer to direct the fourth film of the Alien franchise, instead making A Life Less Ordinary using British finance.

Boyle’s next project was an adaptation of the cult novel The Beach. He then collaborated with author Alex Garland on the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later.

In between the films The Beach and 28 Days Later, Boyle directed two TV movies for the BBC in 2001 – Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise and Strumpet. He also directed a short film Alien Love Triangle (starring Kenneth Branagh), and was intended to be one of three shorts within a feature film. However, the project was canceled after the two other shorts were made into feature films: Mimic starring Mira Sorvino and Impostor starring Gary Sinise.

In 2004, Boyle directed the Frank Cottrell Boyce scripted Millions. His science-fiction film Sunshine, starring 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy, was released in 2007.

Boyle at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

In 2008, Boyle directed Slumdog Millionaire, the story of an impoverished child (Dev Patel) on the streets of Mumbai who competes on India’s variant of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, for which Boyle won an Academy Award.

Boyle will also direct Ponte Tower, about a girl moving into South Africa’s famed fifty-four story skyscraper near the end of the apartheid-era only to fall under the influence of a druglord, as well as the film Solomon Grundy, about a baby who experiences an entire lifetime in just 6 days

Vikas Swarup (Hindi: विकास स्वरूप)

                                                  Mini Biography

Vikas Swarup (Hindi: विकास स्वरूप) (b. 1963; Allahabad, India), is a 1986 batch Indian Foreign Service bureaucrat, an Indian novelist and diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain. He is presently, since August 2006,  posted in Pretoria as India’s Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa. His debut novel, Q and A, tells the story of how a penniless waiter in Mumbai becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history. Critically acclaimed in India and abroad, this international bestseller is being translated into 40 languages. It was shortlisted for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and won South Africa’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2006, as well as the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.

A BBC radio play based on the book won the Gold Award for Best Drama at the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2008 and the IVCA Clarion Award 2008. Harper Collins brought out the audio book, read by Kerry Shale, which won the Audie for best fiction audio book of the year. Film4 of the UK had optioned the movie rights and the movie titled Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle was first released in the US to great critical acclaim. It won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and three awards (Best Film, Best Director and Most Promising Newcomer) at the British Independent Film Awards 2008. The National Board of Review picked Slumdog Millionaire as the best film of 2008. The movie swept five awards out of its six nominations at the Critics’ Choice Awards, and all four nominations awarded at the Golden Globe Awards which includes best director, picture, screenplay & score, and seven BAFTA Awards. It received 10 Oscar nominations of which it won 8, including Best Picture and Best Director. From The NY Times’ report: “though it had no actors nominated for prizes, [it also] swept many awards other than those on the top line, including prizes for cinematography, sound mixing, score and film editing. Slumdog’s eight Oscars was the largest total won by a single film since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won 11 in 2004. The film was released in the UK on 9th of January 2009 and in India on 23rd January.

Vikas Swarup’s second novel Six Suspects, published by Transworld, was released on July 28, 2008 and is being translated into several languages. It has also been optioned for a film by the BBC and Starfield productions.

Swarup’s short story ‘A Great Event’ has been published in ‘The Children’s Hours: Stories of Childhood’, a bold and moving anthology of stories about childhood to support Save the Children and raise awareness for its fight to end violence against children.

Vikas Swarup has participated in the Oxford Literary Festival, the Turin International Book Fair, the Auckland Writers’ Conference, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Kitab Festival in New Delhi, the St. Malo International Book & Film Festival in France and the ‘Words on Water’ Literary Festival at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Vikas Swarup’s official website