„Slumdog Millionaire” went home to India with four Golden Globes, including the one for best dramatic film. Even if the movie is set to be released in Mumbai on January 23, the city began to celebrate already. After the Sunday night ceremony, the newspapers from Mumbai started to be filled with pride headlines.

The Times of India reported „The $lumdog Has Its Day” and the Hindustan Times wrote that „Indian tale catches global fancy.” The movie also received the award for Best Director, Danny Boyle, Best Screenplay, by Simon Beaufoy and Best Original Score by A. R. Rahman.

According to Subir Malik, an Indian musician, the awards received by „Slumdog” represented a great pride for India, a country which produces more than 200 films each year. The movie is based on the novel written by Vikas Swarup, an Indian author and diplomat, „Q and A.”

„Slumdog” is filmed and set in India and tells the story of Jamal Malik, an orphan of only 18 years old who participates at the Indian version of the contest “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Malik, who lives in the slums of Mumbai and earns his everyday money by serving tea, is one step ahead from gaining 20 million rupees on the contest.

Yet, the boy gets arrested on suspicion of cheating as everybody believes he couldn’t have known the answers so well because the contest hadn’t been designed for anyone to win the top prize. But once he is taken into police custody, Malik tells the cops all about his life on the streets and all about the love he shared for one beautiful girl. He doesn't answer the questions because he is intelligent, but he answers them with the help of his life experience. Malik searches for two important people in his life: his older brother and the beautiful Latika.

Still, you will have to find out by yourselves what was Malik doing at that contest if he didn’t want the money and how was it that he knew all the correct answers.

The movie was screened at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited release in North America on November 12, 2008. It won five of the six awards it was nominated for at the Critics Choice Awards.

Warner Bros financed the movie and one third of it is spoken in Hindi, because even if the original script was in English, Boyle thought that making the movie in India wouldn’t fit the language.

Boyle made an extraordinary movie based on the script written by Simon Beaufoy, in which he mixed art and commercial influences, a thing that made the movie win so many awards and made the people come and see it. The visual effects just capture the audience’s attention and make “Slumdog” an almost-piece-of-art.