Slumdog Millionaire- Genre and Audience

The genre of the movie Slumdog Millionaire is drama. The features that determine this drama is that Jamal goes through a series of unfortunate events that puts him into poverty. Even when he wins the game show, investigators are still trying to take him down. All the forces in the movie are trying to bring Jamal down. This makes the genre of the film a drama. The scenes of the slum were based on a police chase in the Indian film Black Friday and the film Satya about the Mumbai underworld. The directors of the movie are Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan. Boyle is English, whereas Tandan is Indian. This allows for different perspectives to be shown throughout the film. They created the film to show a rags to riches feel good film. This film is much different from Boyle's typical edgy films. This because he teamed up with Tandan, who provided authentic Indian flare to the film. The film's narrative is unique in that Simon Beaufoy's vision is the one being shown. Jamal, the main character, is on a millionaire game show. Each time a host asks a new question, Jamal has a flashback. Each flashback lead Jamal to the answer and gives us another chapter of his life story. There are 12 flashbacks that are sub-plots. All of the 12 short stories are tied together by the over-arching narrative of the millionaire game show. The narrative enhances the drama genre of the film. The film's target audience was a mixture between Western and Eastern cultures. Boyle reflects the values of the Western culture, and Tandan reflects the values of the Eastern culure. Most of the people in the Western culture loved the rags to riches story, but the people from the eastern culure, particularly India, had a different response to the film. Indian audiences didn't like the fact that title is called "Slumdog" and Jamal is referred to as a slumdog. This gives the the slums a negative connotation, and doesn't show the dynamism and complexity of the "slum". Overall, the film does the best it can to accurately portray the slums in that an Indian woman directs and some of the cast was taken directly from the "slums".