Slumdog Team Anticipating MTV Movie Awards 2009

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After winning Oscars and BAFTA, Slumdog Millionaire Team now is anticipating their victory at MTV Movie Awards 2009.

The film has been nominated in many categories there and is all set to grab a few more. The ever popular venture has been nominated in 6 categories for the MTV Movie Awards 2009. The USP of this years is that winners will be decided through online voting by fans.

Slumdog has been nominated for Best Movie, Breakthrough Performance Female – Freida Pinto and Breakthrough Performance Make – Dev Patel. Apart from these regular awards, there are some atypical categories such as Best Fight and Best Kiss in which real and reel life couple,
Dev and Frieda have been nominated. Looks like the onscreen smooch
definitely made it on audience's hot list!

Furthermore, MTV has added two new award categories: Best Song and best WTF Moment. The classy AR Rahman's Jai Ho has been nominated for Best Song. This nomination will be competing against popular singers such as Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and Paramore. In the Best WTF Moment category, the jumping in the poop shed scene has been selected from Slumdog Millionaire.Interestingly, child star Ayush Khedekar, who plays the young Jamal (Dev Patel), who has been nominated will see competetion from Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie, Ben Stiller and Amy Poehler.

The winner will be zeroed through public voting taking place on MTV's website. The award ceremony will be held at Universal City, California on May 31.The event will also be telecast live on MTV.


Wish Slumdog Millionaire all the best! Will this venture sweep all the awards once again? Only time will tell.