Desi Wonders » Slumdog Millionaire http://www.desiwonders.com/blog Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:47:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Slumdog Millionaire Girl Freida Pinto to Work in Woody Allen’s Film http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/slumdog-millionaire-girl-freida-pinto-to-work-in-woody-allens-film/152/ http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/slumdog-millionaire-girl-freida-pinto-to-work-in-woody-allens-film/152/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:24:46 +0000 admin http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/?p=152 Freida Pinto, who played the lead female role in the Oscar Award winning Slumdog Millionaire is now all set to work in popular American Director Woody Allen’s movie. Woody Allen is a 3-time Oscar Award winner. Woody’s unnamed movie is due to begin in July this year according to Freida Pinto in an interview. Woody Allen’s movies are known for the display of sexuality so its going to be a different challenge for the Indian girl Freida Pinto. She might well have to do some skin show and some intimate scenes in what would be her second movie!

The 24-year-old Freida Pinto had played the role of Latika in Slumdog Millionaire which got her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a nomination for the BAFTA Best Actress in Supporting Role.

]]> http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/slumdog-millionaire-girl-freida-pinto-to-work-in-woody-allens-film/152/feed/ 0 Slumdog Millionaire bags eight Oscars! http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/slumdog-millionaire-bags-eight-oscars/129/ http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/slumdog-millionaire-bags-eight-oscars/129/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:28:59 +0000 admin http://www.desiwonders.com/blog/?p=129 Slumdog Millionaire bagged as many as eight Oscar Awards including the biggest that of being the Best Film. The movie was nominated for ten Academy awards and it was virtually a clean sweep for Director Danny Boyle and his crew.

The Director of Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle, who himself got the Oscar for Best Director was humble enough to admit his mistake of not crediting a choreographer in the movie. An Indian by the name Longinus Fernandes had choreographed the Oscar Award winning song ‘Jai Ho’ which appears at the end of the film. Unfortunately, Longinus’ name wasn’t credited which was known to the rest of the world only through Boyle’s speech at the Oscars. Danny Boyle said that “There’s one guy I should mention, we’ve mentioned a lot of people, I forgot the guy who choreographed the dance at the end of the film, he’s called Longinus [Fernandes] and I forgot him off the credits, and I only found out about it two weeks ago. I’m an idiot… and I apologize from the bottom of my heart Longinus”.

Well here is a list of Oscars that the Slumdog Millionaire has won:

  1. Best Picture
  2. Best Director which went to Danny Boyle
  3. Best Original Music Score for AR Rahman
  4. Best Song for AR Rahman and Gulzar for Jai Ho
  5. Best Adapted Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy
  6. Best Film Editing for Chris Dickens
  7. Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle
  8. Best Sound Mixing for Resul Pookutty
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