I am interested in words so I was searching for the analysis of the book vis a vis the movie. And I got this blog post.
Of course, it is an individual blogger's view. Still, if it is correct, that redeems Danny's contribution to the film and that is why the film had eventually gone to win Oscar while the book didn't find much notice. Hope all those cursing Danny would go through a similar exercise by reading the book and then comparing the film to find out what Danny's contribution actually is. btw, the Q&A (English) has been translated and published in Hindi also under the title Kaun Banega ArabPati, I think. -- Rawat http://rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth/archives/2009/01/09/qa-by-vikas-swarup-and-slumdog-millionaire/ -- I appreciate Slumdog Millionaire even more after reading the source material. That is a sneaky way of telling you that I liked the movie better than the book. -- The contrast between Q&A and Slumdog Millionaire illustrates this perfectly. The setup is the same: a poor, uneducated young man in India advances on a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?-type show because the questions perfectly parallel his life experiences. But while Q&A is full of darkness, Slumdog Millionaire shows similar (though not exactly the same) difficult situations through a lens of hope and love and luck (or maybe fate). Which is why it was my favorite movie for 2008. For the same reason, Q&A will join the (much too long) list of books I have read and then forgotten about. --
