Slumdog Millionaire

Rare that a film takes the best of a thrilling novel (Vikas Swarup's Q&A) and at breakneck speed creates a grandeur of place and people perhaps unimagined by the book's author. Director Danny Boyle has taken Swarup's narrative device -- a Mumbai slum dweller's life story provides answers to TV game show questions -- and crafted a perfect movie. How did he do it? It is written.