Background to the film Slumdog Millionaire

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk>
Date: February 24, 2009 12:01:22 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Background to the film Slumdog Millionaire

Hi Dave:

For IP if you think it is appropriate:

> A NEWCASTLE professor watched Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire -  
> not realising he was the inspiration behind the movie.
>
> A decade ago Professor Sugata Mitra knocked a hole through the wall  
> of his laboratory in New Delhi, India, so children in the adjoining  
> slum could play on one of his computers.
>
> The experiment, to see whether unschooled children would teach  
> themselves how to use the internet if left to their own devices, was  
> intended as an educational tool.
>
> But it eventually inspired the film which swept the Oscars on Sunday  
> night.
>
> As he celebrated the film's success, original author Vikas Swarup  
> said he wrote Q&A, which was adapted for the screen by Simon  
> Beaufoy, as a direct result of hearing about street children using  
> Professor Mitra's computer.
. . .

Full story at:

http://tinyurl.com/czcd32

See also:

http://markkobayashihillary.computing.co.uk/2009/02/a-niit-at-the-movies.html

cheers

Brian

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