Slumdog Millionaire
Jamal Malik is an orphan aged 18 from Mumbai’s slums. He is about to have the most amazing day of his entire life. He is only one question away winning 20 million rupees via India’s Kaun Banega Crrepati, with the entire nation watching. 2000 (Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? When the night ends, Jamal is arrested by police on suspicion that he has been cheating. How could such a young street child know this much? Jamal, desperate to prove his innocence tells his story about his childhood in the slum where his brother was born, their adventures on the roads, as well as the tale of Latika (the girl that he lost and loved). Every chapter in his tale reveals the secret to answering a question on the game show. Jamal’s ever-growingly complex story will reveal where Jamal learned the answers for the show’s impossible questions. One question is still unanswered: What’s this man, a young man without any apparent need for wealth doing on the game-show? The Inspector, sixty million viewers and Jamal return to the last question as the new day begins. The story’s heart is the inquiry of how people come to understand love and life. –Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Actors: Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Jeneva Talwar, Rajendranath Zutshi, Saurabh Shukla
Country: United Kingdom, United States
