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Synopsis: The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan (co-director)
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  Won 8 Oscars. Another 144 wins & 126 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2008
120 min
$141,243,551
Website
5,762 Views


You just won 4,000 rupees.

A 16 thousand rupees.

Religion. Interesting.

In depictions of God Rama he is

famously holding what in his right hand?

Run!

Salim, Jamal! Run!

They're Muslims, get them!

Get a move on! Come with us!

Hey, get lost!

Are you deaf? I said piss off!

Come with us.

I wake up every morning wishing I did

not know the answer to that question.

If it wasn't for Rama and Allah...

I would still have a mother.

A bow and arrow.

Final answer?

Final answer.

Computer, (speaks Hindi) D (speaks Hindi)?

You just won 16000 rupees.

Well done, my friend.

Time for commercial break.

Don't go away now.

You got lucky, huh?

If I were you I'd take the money and run.

You're not going to the next one.

Piss off!

She'll have the security guard on us!

Let her in.

She could be the third musketeer.

I'm the elder in this family now,

and I say, she's not coming in, okay?

In any case...

We don't even know the name

of the third bloody musketeer.

Salim?

Come over here.

Where's your mother?

Your father?

I'm Jamal.

This is my brother Salim.

I'm Latika.

You can sleep here if you want.

Thank you Jamal.

Welcome back to "Who

Wants To Be A Milionaire?"

Our contestant, Jamal Malik,

call-center assistant from Mumbay,

is on 16 thousand rupees,

and has already used only one

lifeline, ask the audience.

So my friend, you're into serious money.

Shall we play?

Yes.

The song "Darshan Do Ghanshyam" was

written by which famous Indian poet?

A:
Surdas

B:
Tulsidas

C:
Mira Bai

D:
Kabir

It's hot, huh?

The way he's taking care of

us, he must be a good man.

Must be a bloody saint

We're not allowed to talk to the others.

Why?

If we get seconds, then

he really must be a saint.

Very good, Arvind. Very good.

Laughing at me. I'll kill you.

Hey, get off her.

Don't touch me!

You fat bastard!

You big tree!

Punnoose, I think you've found your dog.

Okay, time to go. Get to work.

Think you're here for a picnic?

What do you think this is, a holiday?

And what are you laughing at?

Give me that.

Shut up!

Brother Salim.

What's up little brother, you got a problem?

Hey take her. She's yours today.

I don't want her.

Take her. It's for your own

good. Babies earn double.

She said she doesn't want her.

Shut it Jamal!

Take her now or i'll drop her.

Keep her crying, and you'll earn triple.

Come on! Get to work!

We'll use the hottest ones.

Chillies on his willy!

I'll get you back!

Go back to sleep all of you!

Very good. I am happy.

He's ready. - I'm ready as well.

Come on, move the lamp.

Okay.

Bring Jamal over.

Listen, kid. It's decision time.

You want the life of a slumdog

or the life of a man, huh?

A real man. A gunfighter.

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Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy (born 1967) is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth. In 1997 he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The Full Monty. He went on to win the 2009 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire as well as winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award. more…

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