M.I.A., who was nine months pregnant and due to deliver on the day of the Grammy Awards ceremony in February 2009, performed with rappers T.I.,… Following its success at the 81st Academy Awards, the film topped the worldwide box office (barring North America), grossing $16 million from 34 markets in the week following the Academy Awards. This is the "biggest ever increase for a UK saturation release," breaking "the record previously held by Billy Elliot's 13%." "[51] In the week ending 1 March 2009, following its success at the 81st Academy Awards where it won eight Oscars, the film returned to No. Originally appointed as one of the five casting directors in India, Loveleen Tandan has stated, "I suggested to Danny and Simon Beaufoy, the writer of Slumdog, that it was important to do some of it in Hindi to bring the film alive [...] They asked me to pen the Hindi dialogues which I, of course, instantly agreed to do. Its biggest single country increase was in Italy, where it was up 556% from the previous week. Rather, Sengupta argues the film's "reductive view" of such slums is likely to reinforce negative attitudes to those who live there. [55] A dubbed Hindi version, Slumdog Crorepati (स्लमडॉग करोड़पति), was also released in India in addition to the original version of the film. Trade analyst Komal Nahta commented, "There was a problem with the title itself.

By then, it's just a little too late. Salim gets a job with Javed—a rival crime lord. [47] The takings increased by another 7% the following weekend, bringing the film's gross up to £10.24 million for its first seventeen days in the UK,[48][49] and up to £14.2 million in its third week.[50].
That's what we intended. [17] Boyle was impressed by how Beaufoy wove the multiple storylines from Swarup's book into one narrative, and the director decided to commit to the project.

[82] Several other reviewers have described Slumdog Millionaire as a Bollywood-style "masala" movie,[83] due to the way the film combines "familiar raw ingredients into a feverish masala"[84] and culminates in "the romantic leads finding each other. [54] The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 1 June 2009. Although the brothers had read the novel in school, albeit not diligently, and referred to themselves as Athos and Porthos, it is revealed that they do not know the third musketeer's name.

[5], After debuting on a Wednesday, the film grossed $360,018 in 10 theatres in its first weekend, a strong average of $36,002 per theatre. [5], The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 31 March 2009. "[77] Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern refers to Slumdog Millionaire as, "the film world's first globalised masterpiece.
And as we drew closer to the shoot date, Danny asked me to step in as the co-director. It was shot on a digital camera, the Silicon Imaging SI-2K video camera, in 2K resolution digital video.

The film opened at No. Elsewhere, Jamal and Latika meet on the platform at the train station and kiss. "[92], However, there are others who point to the changing urban aspirations and prospects for mobility that can be seen in Indian cities such as Mumbai in which the film is set.