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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
5,832 Views


Your destiny is in your hands, brother.

You can be like me or...

Understand?

I understand.

Go. Get Jamal.

I just need Maman to like my

singing, and we're in the money.

Big money, Latika.

And then what? Can we stop begging?

Begging? Are you kidding?

We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road.

You, me and Salim. The Three Musketeers.

Harbour Road. Really?

Yes.

In the moonlight...

You and me.

You'll dance with me won't you?

I hope you sing better than you dance.

It's my turn. - Sing well.

So this is it huh, brother?

The good life here we come.

Athos.

Porthos?

When I say

It's time to get professional.

What? Really?

First, let me hear that song...

Darshan to Ghanshyam.

That's my favourite.

Fifty rupees.

Now I'm a professional, what can I do?

Cheeky little bugger.

Here you go.

Jamal, go. Run!

Hold on! Catch them!

Get the torches! Get them!

Latika, run!

Come on, Latika! Grab his hand!

What happened, what happened?

She let go!

We've got to go back,

brother. We've got to go.

Go back and we're dead.

Have you gone mad?

He was going to take your eyes out!

With a spoon.

Don't worry about her. She'll be fine.

She always is.

Surdas.

Surdas?

Surdas (speaks Hindi) final answer?

Yes.

Guess what, you're right!

Blind singers earn double you know that?

What happened to a girl?

They blinded her too?

They had other plans.

Well it took me a long time to find out.

Got to let it go.

Come on.

Where? - I'm starving.

Get up!

So is it your Dad's train then?

Is this heaven?

You are not dead, Jamal.

What is it?

Some hotel huh?

The Taj Mahal is considered the

finest example of modern architecture.

...was completed around 1648 using

the labour force of 20'000 workers.

In 1980 it became a UNESCO

World Heritage Site and was cited...

Official tour guide.

Please take off your shoes

Please, please.

What time is the next tour?

We are on tight schedule.

We have to see the Red

Fort this afternoon.

VISITORS ARE REQUESTED TO COLLECT RECEIP

No, I... - Please, would it be possibl

to show us up round now?

Obviously we understand that it

costs more for just the two of us.

But of course madam!

Please follow me.

The Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Khurrama

for his wife Mumtaz, who was the

maximum beautiful woman in the world.

Then when she died, the emperor

decided to build this five-star hotel,

for everyone who would

like to visit her tomb.

But he died in 1587 before any of the

rooms were built, or any of the lifts.

But this swimming pool as you can see was

completed on schedule in top class fashion.

Is says nothing of this in the guide book.

The guide book was written by a bunch

of lazy good-for-nothing Indian beggars.

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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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