Can you love someone so strongly, it drives you to answer all the questions correctly on a tough quiz show like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"? Apparently, love can make you do anything.

Although the idea may seem far-fetched, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) make their case beautifully with Slumdog Millionare - a film so stunning and satisfying, it goes to the very core of human experience. The film is already touted to win Best Picture at the upcoming Oscars. And one can see why.

When the film opens, teenage boy Dev Patel is being accused by the police of cheating on a quiz show. After all, he is an uneducated orphan. How could he have answered all the tough questions on the show unless someone was feeding him the answers, right? Wrong.

Life, it seems, has a funny of teaching the young man everything he needed to know on the show. As Slumdog Millionaire flashes back into his past, it tracks his extraordinary journey from a juvenile deliquent to a quiz show whiz.

As in the case of those of us who weren't born with much, life for Dev began as a series of endless disappointments and heartbreaks. Yet each time, he bounced back and moved on, taking away a precious lesson that would one day come in handy. The most important lessons of all he learnt when he fell in love with the beautiful Frieda Pinto…

Gorgeous, exhilarating and inspirational, Slumdog Millionaire is a miraculous work and a testament to the emotional power of cinema. Director Danny Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle imbue it with the spirit and energy reminiscent of Fernando Mireille's City of God and, yes, Danny's first smash-hit, Trainspotting. There are so many unforgettable scenes here, and even the closing credits are worth staying back for.

If you're going to watch to just one Oscar nominee this year, let it be Slumdog Millionaire. (If two, then catch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button too.)