According to critic David Gritten of the Telegraph, it is “the first film of the Obama era,” by which he means that it shares an Obama-type idealism, which might, but in his view ought not to be, mistaken for naiveté, presumably in light of the current global crisis of capitalism. The film has been on an award-winning roll, having won four Golden Globes, seven Baftas, and a few others besides the eight Oscars, something that surely adds to rather than subtracts from its imperial charm. This is obviously meant to suggest the irrelevance of the nation to its most marginalized member, but less obviously, also indicates its redundancy under globalized neoliberalism. For instance, while he knows that Benjamin Franklin adorns the hundred dollar bill, he has no clue about who adorns the thousand rupee note. In the quiz, Jamal is unable to answer questions that test his nationalist knowledge but is surprisingly comfortable with those that mark his familiarity with international trivia. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor at the Asian Languages and Literature Department, University of Minnesota.ĭanny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (based on Indian diplomat Vikas Swaroop’s novel Q & A) takes the extremely potent idea of a Bombay slum boy tapping into his street knowledge to win a twenty-million-dollar reality quiz show, and turns it into a universal tale of love and human destiny. Nandini Chandra teaches English at Hansraj College, Delhi University.
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