The story goes as young Jamal Malik (played by Dev Patel) , a former street child from the Dharavi slums , gets interrogated and tortured by the Indian Police after being refered to as a cheater in the game show “ Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?”. Being capable of answering tricky questions that an ordinary person could not, he is accused of cheating.
As the tagline says “Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?"
A) He Cheated B) He’s Lucky C) He’s Genius D) It is Written .
As the Slumdog Millionaire film unfolds, the great question is answered as he discussed to the police how the right answers was connected to his life. Everything in his life happened for a reason. One example is the question “What does the god Rama hold in his hand?” and he remembered an incident during his childhood when they were attacked by fellow Indians. They fled from the scene but did not know where to go, encountering a child depicting Rama.
The Slumdog Millionaire movie was a little different from the book that inspired it (entitled Q&A by Vikas Swarup) in the sense that in the book the name of the character Jamal is instead Ram Mohammad Thomas for the elders in their former village gave him a Hindu name, a Muslim name and a Christian name to maintain balance among the religious communities around them.
Slumdog Millionaire earned itself a lot of awards from several major and acclaimed award giving bodies. It won 8 awards in the Oscar Academy awards, including the Best Picture and Best Director award, 4 from the Golden Globe awards including Best Picture, Best Drama Film and and Best Director, 5 out of 6 nominations from Critic's Choice Awards and 7 out of 11 nominations from BAFTA awards and won the Toronto International Film Festival's Cadillac People's Choice Award.
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