I thought the movie was great. Away from the true american crap. The movie was sad in many parts but in fact reality…might have woken up a few people across the world. Loved it and will watch it again. Its not about the money. Click here to cancel reply.
Finance ] But America is a much wealthier nation than India. Unless… Sequel, anyone? 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 on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.
At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. Jamal and his brother Salim were raised in the slums of Mumbai. Orphaned at a young age, they managed to survive as did their young friend Latika. He manages to get to 10 million rupees in his first appearance but is arrested by the police who want to know how an illiterate 'slumdog' - as children raised in the slum are called - could possibly know all of those answers without cheating.
He explains how specific events in his life taught him the answers and all he can say that being asked questions to which he knows the answers is simply fate. He hopes that fate will give at least one more good turn as he had a very specific reason for going on the show in the first place. The quintessence thirst to know and absorb the eesence of love and life, emulates through a story of a slum boy Jamal, participating in a Indian television reality show, Koun Banaga Cororpati.
The staggering experience of real life enables him to cross all hardles of answering the questions, but only to be convicted of cheating before the last answering winning streak. Jamal is a fan of the actor's, and pulls out a picture that he wants autographed. With no other way of getting out of the shack, Jamal jumps into the cesspool beneath the toilet and runs towards the movie star, holding up the photograph.
The crowds are disgusted by Jamal's dirty state as he walks up to the movie star and asks for an autograph. The actor signs his photograph and Jamal yells triumphantly. Later, Salim takes Jamal's photograph and sells it to the projectionist at the movie theater. When he comes out of the theater, Jamal yells at him, incensed that his brother would sell the autograph.
Back in the present, the policemen watch Jamal win on the show and Jamal says, "You don't have to be a genius. The question is exceedingly easy, yet Jamal uses his "Ask the Audience" lifeline to answer it.
He then asks them who stole a bicycle last Thursday, and they have no idea, even though he knows the culprit. We see Jamal on the game show, being posed the next question, about what the god Rama is typically depicted holding in his right hand.
In a flashback, we see people washing their clothes, as Jamal and Salim play in the water. Jamal's mother looks over and sees a group of men charging towards the village. The Bombay riots are happening. As Jamal's mother yells at him to run, she gets hit in the head with a stick, dying from the blow, and Jamal and Salim make a run for it. The men throw torches at the small buildings and chaos breaks out.
In the middle of their escape, Jamal and Salim see a manifestation of the god Rama, in the form of a young boy. They stare at him a moment, then continue to run. A man is lit on fire and Jamal and Salim continue to flee through the town. They call to a young girl, telling her to come with them. Back in the present, Jamal says to the policemen, "I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question.
On the gameshow, he gets the question right, winning 16, rupees. During the commercial break, the host advises Jamal to "take the money and run. In flashback, Jamal and Salim stare at their village as it goes up in flames. A storm breaks out and as Jamal and Salim take shelter in a structure, Salim tells the girl they brought with them to go away, lest the security guard find them.
Jamal looks at the girl, who is standing in the rain, then tries to sleep himself, but is haunted by images of his mother's death. He calls to the girl and invites her into the shelter. Your father? She introduces herself as Latika. On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jamal elects to keep going, with a question about which Indian poet wrote a famous song.
From the beginning, the viewer is thrust into a vivid plot, as the shot shifts between a large studio, where the protagonist, Jamal Malik, is competing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
The contrast between these two locales is striking. The bright lights of the television studio contrast with the bleak yellow lighting of the room where Jamal is facing his abuse.
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