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A 21st-Century fairy tale and the year’s most energetic movie, “Slumdog” seemingly came out of nowhere. The smart and scrappy portrait of a young Indian man whose life takes him from the slums of Mumbai to the studios of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” director Danny Boyle’s razor-sharp filmmaking perfectly suits a story that appeals to a moviegoer’s basic desire for a tale well told.
