Who wants to be a millionaire? Just about everyone who has ever sweated over paying the next Visa bill, or hoped to have enough cash to cover that out-of-nowhere car repair. In the slums surrounding India’s mega-metropolis of Mumbai though, it is the impossible dream. Especially for a ’slumdog’ left orphaned with his brother when their mother is killed in a Hindu extremist rampage.
See this film. It is a gritty, violent expose of the crushing poverty in these slums that are among the most populated in Asia. One story run in today’s British ‘Daily Mail’ reveals the truth regarding the most disturbing portion of this film…. gangs who prey on small children to recruit them as beggars;
These are the very realities that have made “Unbound“ a movement and why the International Justice Mission exists (see previous post).
There is beauty interwoven as a powerful contrast in this film…. the beauty of relentless, devoted love and a certainty in hope that leaves you absolutely wanting to see it again.
