MUMBAI: British film Slumdog Millionaire has bagged the Cadillac People‘s Choice Award at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
The TIFF awards were announced at the end of the 11-day festival that closed with the screening of Stone of Destiny, a Scottish period thriller.
Directed by British national Danny Boyle, the film is a story of an 18-year-old underdog who surmounts heavy odds to win the jackpot on the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”, with eccentricities of Mumbai‘s slum as a backdrop.
Slumdog Millionaire, was shot entirely in Mumbai with a star cast that include Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar and Saurabh Shukla, besides newcomers, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto.
The music of the film has been scored by AR Rehman.
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