Hindi Movie Review Slumdog Millionaire - Cast & Crew

Loveleen Tandan is a film director as well as a casting director. She is known for co-directing Academy Award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Loveleen was born in New Delhi, India. She went to Mater Dei School. She went to Hindu College, Delhi University. She did Sociology Honors from Hindu College. She was very active in her college, especially in politics.

Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of the Bollywood film industry. She was born on March 20, 1966. She has been working in the Hindi film industry for three decades. She had bagged seven Filmfare awards out of the thirty five nominations at the Filmfare awards. It was for the best playback singer award category. Her singing is quite beautiful and she was felicitated by many icons. 

She came to the Bollywood industry as a singer at her early age. This gave her a lot of experience and she groomed herself as a consistent and successful singer. Alka Yagnik's songs were listed more than 20 times in the “BBC's “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time”. Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March, 1966 to the Gujarati-Hindu parents. She started her singing career at the age of six while she had sung the song for the All India Radio, Kolkata. 

She came to Mumbai at the age of 10 as a child singer. She had sung 2482 songs in 1114 films as of date. Alka Yagnik has a soothing voice that manifests the song even better. She is the fifth most successful and prominent singer of Bollywood cinema. Her career in Bollywood has been more than three decades and she had pulled out pretty good in the duet numbers. She is a classically trained singer who had profound knowledge in it. Alka Yagnik had won a lot of awards in the prominent ones like Zee Cine Awards, Star screen awards, Filmfare, IIFA awards, Bollywood movie awards, etc. Alka Yagnik had been highly rewarded for having won a lot of Filmfare awards and got the maximum number of nominations. 

In the hundred years of Hindi cinema function, Alka Yagnik's song “Taal Se Taal Mila” from the movie Taal was voted as the best song of the century. This had been done by Fever 104, , Hindustan Times and DesiMartini. She has been active in the Cinema industry since 1980.

Ila Arun is of the star sign Pisces being born on 14th March in Jaipur, Rajasthan where she was also brought up. Her siblings are Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Pandey, Rama Pandey and Tripti Pandey, none of them a part of the Bollywood business like their sister. Ila completed her education graduating from the Maharani Girls’ College in her hometown and is popular for acting and singing, mostly for the latter. Her strong, husky voice of earthy tones has proved her an incomparable singer in Rajasthani folk/folk-pop fusion songs while dabbling in other genres including classical music.

A versatile singer, Tanvi Shah is a playback singer who has sung songs in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Portuguese, Arabic, and Latin. She made her debut in playback singing with the song 'Fanaa' for the movie Yuva, which released in 2004. Ever since then, she has had a collaboration with the Oscar-winning singer A.R Rahman, and she has sung several songs for him. Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja and other leading music directors invited Tanvi after her success with A.R Rahman reached the public eye. She wrote the Spanish lyrics for the ever popular song of Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media, which she shared with Rahman and Gulzar.

Danny Boyle is a British film producer, director, and screenwriter. His some of the very famous work include - Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs, etc. He was born on the 20th day of October 1956 in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He was brought up in a Catholic family. He was an altar boy for eight years. He later studied in Bolton at the Thornleigh Salesian College. He studied English and drama at the Bangor University.

Christian Colson is a British Film producer. He has produced many Hollywood films from 2005 till now. His first production was The Descent followed by Separate Lies in 2005. His movies did not receive much of a response, but he continued his work. In 2008, he produced Slumdog Millionaire, which received a tremendous response. The movie was a super hit and was loved all over the globe. The movie depicts about a poor Indian, who is not educated goes on to win a million dollars on a reality TV show. The movie was an instant hit and earned a huge response. The movie received seven BAFTA awards, five Critics Choice Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Colson was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and later shifted to England. He went on to produce many movies later like The Descent part 2, Centurion and much more. The Centurion got a high response and was one of his notable investments. He is very passionate about movies and always gets involved in whatever movie he is producing.

Ivana MacKinnon is a film producer. She has made many award-winning films. In 2011, she started her own production company named Stray Bear. The name of the first film of this production company was Jonah, which Premiered at Sundance 2013. This film won many international awards. Her film Beast was nominated for Best British Independent and Film Outstanding British Film of the Year.

A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud.  Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.

Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and screenplay for movies like Anand, Khamoshi, Saathiya, etc., He even tried his hand as a director through the years 1971 to 1999 during which he directed more than 20 films.

Mahalakshmi Iyer was born on 21 March 1990, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional Indian singer and playback singer. Iyer is best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung songs in many other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada. She belonged to a piece of Tamil music backgrounded family. Iyer was the daughter of her mother, who is a Carnatic classical singer as well. She started taking classes in Hindustani music at a very young age. Iyer has three sisters named, Kalpana, Padmini, and Shobha, and she was the youngest of all. Iye has been raised in Chembur, Mumbai, India.

Prem Kumar is an Indian actor working in Kannada films. He made his debut in the year 2004 with the film ‘Praana’ but got his fame with the 2005 hit film ‘Nenapirali’. Prem even won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for this movie. He was born on 18 April 1975 in Karnataka to a weaver.

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.

Abhishek Redkar is an art director and product designer in the Bollywood film industry. He is famous for his work in flims like Bonus (2020), Vazandar (2016), Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero (2014), Purani Jeans (2014), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Eight Miles High (2007), Broken Thread (2007), Outsourced (2006), Looking for comedy in the Muslim world (2005) and the Mistress of Spices (2005). He has also been a production designer for films such as Hemalkasa (2014), 72 Miles Ek Pravas (2013), Blue Oranges (2009), and Natale in India (2003). Redkar received the Excellence in Production Design Award at the Art Directors Guild for his work in Slumdog Millionaire in the year 2009.

Chris Dickens is a British film and television editor with more than 40 film credits to his name. He was born in February 1967 in California, United States. As a teenager, his inclination grew toward painting and sculpting. Therefore, he went to Hailsham Community college and completed his graduation at Arts University Bournemouth. As a child, he made many super eight films and learned their mechanics through animation. He loved the editing part of filmmaking and got into film school to pursue his interest. His network with the college seniors' union landed him working as an Assistant Director on television, documentaries, and films.

Dev Patel is a British actor, who saw his first global success with ‘Slumdog Millionaire.' After watching the film like “Slumdog Millionaire,’’ people would talk about this guy Dev Patel (an actor), many film directors even had felt that actor has grown up at a young age. Many Hollywood directors appreciated ‘Slumdog Millionaire,' for the content and story-telling, but felt even that he was better than a lot of other actors who got easy recognition with this film. When the film was released, the director Danny Boyle said that the actor was heading in the right direction- closer to the Oscars, Many audiences in India became a big fan of Dev Patel. Dev Patel, who played the role of Jamal in the movie, said he had seen something different in his role to regular movies. Of course, he got best promising actor award and many more awards for Danny Boyle;s film. Of course, The Last Airbender, was his next project, and that film did not appeal like Slumdog Millionaire. 

After the film Slumdog Millionaire, he was dating his co-star Freida Pinto in 2000 but later had broken up after six years of dating. There was something wrong with his subsequent projects such as ‘’About Cherry’ and ‘The Road Within’, which did not appeal much. Later on, in 2015, he seems to strike back again with two movies,’ The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ where he plays the role hotel owner Sonny Kapoor in a lead role. Then there is ‘Chappie, where Patel will be playing a robotic expert. This actor is basically a Gujarati but identified as a British actor. He grew up in West London. Patel had inspiration from his mother in joining films. It is his mother who took him to audition for a television series. He was selected to play the role of “Anwar Kharral”, a Muslim-Pakistani in TV series ‘Skins”. This was his first break in the world of acting. Later on, he also did many more TV serials and currently busy shooting for a film’ Chappie’. This actor was born on 23 April 1990.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".

Born in Dadar in Mumbai, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is often known as Tendiya, Little Master, and Master Blaster. He belonged to an average family as his father was a novelist and mother worked in the insurance industry. He had three elder siblings named Nitin, Ajit, and Savita. During childhood, Tendulkar was not a peace-loving kid. He used to pick up unnecessary fights with the new children in the school. He had a sportsman attitude since school days. He had an interest in tennis and John McEnroe was his idol.

Amit Leonard is an Indian actor who is best known for his character portrayal in the 2008 hit Slumdog Millionaire. He was born on August 22, 1977, in the city of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. He is 37 years old. He grew up in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand and studied at the Bishop Westcott Boy’s school, Ranchi. Amit’s parents were teachers, and they taught him in the same school. Right from the beginning, he was an exceptional athlete and did fairly well in academics too. He was almost a professional in Long Jump and High Jump at school and college levels.

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movies. He is best known for producing the film Gandhi, My Father. Hamare Tumhare is his first movie, which got released in the year 1979 and he had done a supporting character. He gained his name as an actor with the movie Vamsa Vruksham (1970), a Telugu movie. 

After that part of time, he got a big opportunity to work with a legendary director of Indian Cinema who took the level of Indian film industry to International level and even beyond imagination. Maniratnam is such an icon and every actor has a lifetime dream of working in a single movie with him. But Anil Kapoor is so deserving and fortunate to get an occasion to work with this huge legend. The name of the movie is Pallavi Anu Pallavi which is a Kannada movie and this is the debut movie in Kannada for the actor. 

He acted in multiple film industries in many movies and at the mean time he won many Filmfare Awards subsequently. His debut International movie was such a global hit and it is a great breakthrough for him too. He won an Award for the National Award winning movie namely, Slumdog Millionaire. He established himself as a singer as well and his recent release is a Hindi movie namely, Welcome Back that got released in 2015.

Ankur Vikal is a very popular actor in the films and he is a drama actor too. He got his graduation done at the National School of Drama (NSD) in the year 2000. He pursued his degree in New Delhi and then he turned up to be a promising actor. But prior to this, he was already an Architecture graduate from Baroda. His intense enthusiasm in movies brought him to this arena and he pulled it off. Mongo Souffle’ is his first venture as an actor and his profession as an actor took off from that movie. 

He also acted in the International sensational movie, namely Slumdog Millionaire. His role in the movie is quite special and he made it to be a good actor. He acted in one Tamil movie where the Kollywood star Dhanush did the lead role. Ankur Vikal had done a commendable role in the movie, namely Mariyan. The best part is that he was a part of this national award winning movie. 

He had done movies namely, Kedi in Telugu language and Striker in the Bollywood film industry. He acted in a thriller oriented suspense movie namely The Forest. The best part of this movie was that it got directed by Ashvin Kumar who had been popular for the movie namely, Little Terrorist. The scenes were most likely shot at a park which is based upon Corbett. Ankur Vikal did a redefining job in the movie namely; Missed Call which was not a big hit as far as the box office record was concerned. But still, he gained wholesome experience in his past movies. This gave him a diversified vision in making good acting and doing exemplary roles. He basically adores visiting people and he reads a book daily ever since his childhood. He is a budding actor who does movies in a couple of film industries and his movies were quite experimental.

Feroze Khan is an Indian movie actor who worked for the Hindi film industry. He was born on 11th July 1990 in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Apart from working as an actor, he also worked as a model and video jockey. Feroze started his career as a video jockey on ARY Musik and then pursued his career as a model. Later he made his first debut in 2014 television series named Chup Raho.

Himanshu Tyagi is an Indian director, writer, editor, and cinematographer who predominantly works in the Bollywood entertainment industry. His full name is Himanshu Nisha Tyagi. Himanshu Tyagi has been interested in movies from a young age. He wrote his first film while he was in the tenth grade after watching Steven Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report.’

Irrfan Khan is a noted Bollywood actor who started his career with various Indian television series. His noted Bollywood movies include The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Paan Singh Tomar, Gunday, Rog and The Lunchbox. At the very early stage of his acting career, he acted in various television serials like Barat Ek Khoj, Chanakya, Sara Jahan Hamara, Chandrakanta, Banegi Apni Baat, Star bestsellers, Anoo Goonj and Sparsh.
His early film credits include Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey. Although these movies were critically appreciated, it did not propel him to success.

Madhur Mittal began a new phase of his career in 2008 by playing the role of Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire. The film received huge appreciation and fetched him the Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performance. He got a break in King Khan's (Shah Rukh Khan) project ’One Two Ka Four’ and Salman Khan's ‘Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaye’. Madhur was born in Taj Mahal city (Agra) on January 20, 1987. He then participated in a dance competition for a TV show ‘ Boogie Woogie’ and had won. He was just a kid of 7 years to participate and win the completion.

Mahesh Manjrekar is a renowned actor, director and producer in Marathi cinema. The actor has been in the film industry and theatre for over two decades now and is considered to be a powerhouse of talent. With films like Vaastav and Astitva, he made a mark for himself as a director. Afterwards, he made Virudh with Amitabh Bachchan and Sharmila Tagore.

Narendra Singh is an Indian producer who has worked in many movies in Bollywood. He made his debut in Bollywood as a producer with the movie 'Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai’ directed by Rajnish Thakur, starring Sunil Shetty, Udita Goswami, Rajpal Yadav, and Om Puri in lead roles. The movie was a big hit; it released on 20^th July 2012. Later, he produced many Hindi films Doctor I Love You (2018), B.A. Pass (2012), M.A. Pass (2017), Ab Tak Chappan 2 (2015), Take it easy (2015), Mrs. Scooter (2015),  Kyun Hua Achanak (2013), Maazii (2013), and B.A. Pass 2 (2017). He worked as a co-producer in the movie ‘Babloo Happy Hai’ in 2014. He also did a Gujarati film ‘Tamburo’ as the production manager in 2017.

Rajendranath Zutshi, popularly known as Raj Zutshi, is the father of film actor Imran Khan of Delhi Belly. The actor was married to the daughter of producer, director, and writer, Nasir Hussain. The couple divorced in the year 2006. Raj was born on 4th February, 1961. To add to his family credentials, he is the grandson of Dina Nath Zutshi, a popular radio and TV artiste.

Saurabh Shukla was born at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in the year 1963 on 5th March. He is a versatile personality who started from theater & reached to Bollywood where he tried his hands in Direction, Screenplay writing along with his Acting. At the age of two, he left Gorakhpur & moved to Delhi. He completed his schooling & later did his graduation from Khalsa College in Delhi. In 1984, he kickstarted his career as a professional with his entry into the theater. Shekhar Kapur gave him the debut role in Bandit Queen.

Sharib Hashmi is a very popular Hindi film actor who is apparently famous for the Oscar movie Slumdog Millionaire and also a part of another blockbuster movie namely Filmistaan. The best part of the actor is that his first movie Slumdog Millionaire itself is a stunning one. He was also a part of the movie namely Jab Tak Hai Jaan, wherein which he did a performance oriented role. 

For kids who are on screen, it is quite necessary to be cute. They receive maximum recognition in films even for their talent. Some kids get to earn so much reputation on portraying a particular character on screen that they become the household name. One child actor is Tanay Chheda, who grew up portraying memorable roles in films like My Name Is Khan, Taare Zameen Par, and Slumdog Millionaire. Who can forget his role in Taare Zameen Par? For his best screen performance, this actor was chosen as the best entertainer in POGO Amazing Kids Award. Sanjay Hemant Chheda was born on June 27, 1996, in Mumbai.