SM DVDs will have deleted scenes in extras.

MAJOR SPOILER in quote BELOW-

Quote:

As Ifran Khan said (not compaining though), his scenes were trimmed. Important one being that when Ifran Khan realizes that Jamaal had not been cheating, he escorts Jamaal himself to the show.

-Songs/ music in SM CD are much longer than the short versions in theater. Hopefully, full video clips of the songs will be in the DVD or in deleted scenes in extras.

Hopefully these deleted scenes will be in there.

(Still can't forget that "Rabba Rabba Meein Varsaa" song was not included in full in Monsoon Wedding DVD or in Extras )

I could swear that song was on the end credits of the film.

yes it was to the best of my memory... starts well before credits roll up.

I have recorded video of this song off TV on VHS. It's not in the DVD. There is a small portion of it but not in full as it's on my home VHS.

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R1 DVD shots

# Format: NTSC, Widescreen
# Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
# Number of discs: 1
# Rating: R
# Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
# Run Time: 120 minutes 30 seconds































Ali

Why is the picture so soft? Or is the film actually like that?

Hmmm not sure, I thought it might have been cos I've taken the shots with VLC player but PowerDVD shots (below) seem about the same sharpness/softness ;



















Ali

720 P bluray is already out on net. 1080P is awaited!

So?
Do you advocate pirating?

Some excerpts from Sun Media DVD review:

http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/Movies ... 6-sun.html
Tue, March 31, 2009
First-class Slum
Oscar miracle goes all out for the DVD release

By BRUCE KIRKLAND, SUN MEDIA

Confession: I was prepared to be disappointed with the first wave of Slumdog Millionaire DVDs.

Hallelujah! It is yet another triumph for the underdog. Films which have been so intensely scrutinized have a tendency to clunk, clatter and break down on their DVD debut.

GENEROUS EXTRAS:
It is not even a Special Edition. But it feels like it when you are watching the generous extras, which perfectly capture the feel of the project from its inception.

The DVD is a two-disc effort, although the second disc is reserved for the digital copy. All the extras are on disc one, along with a gorgeous widescreen transfer. Those extras are excellent, except for some of the poor quality video in the making-of scenes on set in Mumbai.

SPOILERS BELOW in quotes

Quote:

There are 34 minutes of deleted scenes, some redeeming the tough police inspector played by Irrfan Khan, who authorizes the torture of Patel's character, Jamal, to get him to confess to fraud during his Millionaire run. In the final edit of the film, all he got was a glimmer. This is more satisfying.

Other deleted scenes provide more time with the three leads in the three phases of their lives together -- the two brothers and the girl who divides and even threatens to conquer them because of their jealousies and betrayals.

23-MINUTE DOC

The prime real estate is devoted to a 23-minute documentary, Slumdog Dreams: Danny Boyle and the Making of Slumdog Millionaire.

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Why some wanted extras missing:

One of the crazy things about Oscars and DVDs is that actual footage of the Academy Awards is almost always missing.

There are rights issues.
The Academy owns its show and does not easily share it, although snippets of acceptance speeches from decades ago appear on some DVDs.
There are also timing issues. While most movies are still in the prime of their theatrical runs, the DVDs are mapped out, documentaries edited and commentaries completed.

So, by the time the DVD comes out, even the eight Oscars that Slumdog Millionaire won are not acknowledged properly. I would love to see each of those awards being presented -- on the Slumdog DVDs which come out today. It is not to be.

Nor do you get to see that on-stage party scene at the Kodak Theatre, with the entire cast and crew erupting in an inspired celebration.

Not all actually got nominated. For example, Indian co-director and casting director Loveleen Tandan never got her public due, because of the byzantine rules relating to Academy Awards credits. But many others did.

So here is who won Oscars for the movie: Best picture (producer Christian Colson); best director (Danny Boyle); best screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), best cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), best film editing (Chris Dickens), best original score (A.R. Rayman), best original song (Jai Ho, by Rahman and Gulzar), and best sound (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty).

Blu Ray shots from Blu-Ray.Com:

I went to pick up the DVD (not Blue Ray) expecting it to be a 2 disc set. But, it seems to be only one disc DVD. Two (or may be three) disc set is the Blue Ray version.
Looks like the Sun Media DVD review is for Blue Ray but reading it again, there is no mantion of it. So, false hope for the DVD.

BR has lot more extras than in the DVD.
Sun Media review states the additional short film to be Slumdog Dreams. BR cover states it to be "Manjha". Perhaps it's different name in English and in Hindi.

If all the extras in BR are in DVD format (are they ??), why not include that disc in DVD version ?? May be the spl edition will come out later ??

As mentioned in Sun Media review, 2nd disc is just the digital copy (BR cover states that).

So, is BR version a three disc set, BR film, Extras disc, Digital disc ?? Or, is it that Extras are on BR disc itself, in DVD quality, and not compatible with DVD players ??

I think I did post it here, some where that fox decided rentals to be single disc and retail only 2 discs, both dvd and bluray.

In DVD, there's only one version for sale ($ 19) on the shelves and it has no indication of 2 disc.