Slum

A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and squalor. While slums differ in size and other characteristics from country to country, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings that because of poor-quality design or construction have deteriorated into slums.

Slums were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Europe. More recently slums have been predominantly found in urban regions of developing and undeveloped parts of the world, but are also found in developed economies.

According to UN-Habitat, around 33% of the urban population in the developing world in 2012, or about 863 million people, lived in slums. The proportion of urban population living in slums was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa (61.7%), followed by South Asia (35%), Southeast Asia (31%), East Asia (28.2%), West Asia (24.6%), Oceania (24.1%), Latin America and the Caribbean (23.5%), and North Africa (13.3%). Among individual countries, the proportion of urban residents living in slum areas in 2009 was highest in the Central African Republic (95.9%). Between 1990 and 2010 the percentage of people living in slums dropped, even as the total urban population increased. The world's largest slum city is in Mexico City.

Slum (film)

Slum (Kannada: ಸ್ಲಂ) is a 2013 Indian Kannada language film directed by M. Mahesh Kumar. It stars Mayur Patel, Neha Patil, P. Murthy and Disha Poovaiah in pivotal roles. The film is based on a real-life crime that occurred in Bangalore, and received an 'A' certificate from Regional Censor Board.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music for the soundtrack was composed by B. R. Hemanth Kumar and the background music for the film was scored by the duo Ashley-Abhilash. The album has five soundtracks.

Critical reception

Slum received generally mixed response from critics upon its theatrical release. G. S. Kumar of the The Times of India gave the film a rating of two out of four and wrote, "The movie is full of bloodshed and murders. While Mayur Patel has shown some maturity, P Murthy has a long way to go. This is not the right movie for Neha Patil or Disha Poovaiah to prove their acting talent. Music by BR Hemanthkumar has a couple of catchy tunes."