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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
6,183 Views


I'm so late for the mensa!

Just a minute.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

There's nothing about any cook.

There's a dishwasher being delivered.

Do you know anything about that?

(Speaks Hindi) I... I'm your dishwasher.

Look at you.

I've found you.

Your face.

You've hurt your eye.

Why are you here?

To see you.

You see me, now what?

Why does everyone love this program?

This is a chance to escape, isn't it?

Walk into another life.

Oh, god.

Javed will kill you. Here.

Javed?

You are with him?

First, you want a dishwasher,

now you want this f***ing cook, huh?

He's just... - Shut up!

The cricket is on

and why you watch this sh*t tv?

At least I am a millionaire.

Come on, I am hungry. Make me a sandwich.

Come away with me.

Away? Where?

And live out what?

Love.

Come away with me. Now.

Salim will help us.

Salim? You still believe in Salim?

Jamal, I'll be gone soon anyway.

We're getting out of Bombay.

Where?

You think he'd tell me?

No! No! No!

What is this sh*t?

Get out! Get out!

Go, before he kills us both.

You want to do something for me?

- Anything.

Then forget me.

What? No.

I will wait. The VT station.

I love you.

So what? It's too late, Jamal. Now go.

So Jamal.

Which cricketer has scored the most

first class centuries in history?

A:
Sachin Tendulkar

B:
Ricky Ponting

C:
Michael Slater

D:
Jack Hobbs

But remember, if you answer wrong

you lose everything, just like this.

So do you want to do this?

Dreams of so many...

on the floor.

Time for commercial break ladies and gentlemen

I know, I know. I can't stand the tension either.

We'll be right back.

Guy from the slums becomes

a millionaire overnight.

You know who's the only other

person who's done that?

Me.

I know what it feels like.

I know what you're being through.

I'm not going to become a millionaire.

I don't know the answer.

You said that before, yeah...

Really, this time I don't.

Come on, you can't take the money and run now.

You are on the edge of history kid.

I don't see what else I can do.

Maybe it's written my friend.

I just have some kind of gut

feeling, you're gonna win this.

Trust me, Jamal.

You're gonna win.

Standby, everyone. We are on line in 13...

(speaks Hindi)

Yeah, he's gone. I'm just giving...

Go fast.

Do the right thing and in approximately 3 minutes

you'll be as famous as me.

And as rich as me. Almost.

From rags to raja. It's your destiny.

We are on. Applause and music please!

Welcome back to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"!

In the chair tonight is Jamal

Malik, as if we don't know.

For 10 million rupees.

To question once again.

Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?

No it isn't Sachin Tendulkar.

That's a start.

So it could be Ricky Ponting, Jack Hobbs or Michael Slater.

I'll use a lifeline. Fifty-fifty.

ok.

Computer, take away the two wrong answers please.

Well, you were right about Sachin Tendulkar.

That leaves your fifty-fifty choice, Jamal.

B:
Ricky Ponting or D: Jack Hobbs.

What do you think?

Decision time. For 10 million rupees.

B:
Ricky Ponting

or D:
Jack Hobbs.

D.

Not B?

The Ricky Ponting, the Australian great cricketer?

D, Jack Hobbs.

You know?

So it could be B, Ricky Ponting?

Or D, Jack Hobbs.

The final answer, D.

Computer (speaks Hindi) D.

(Speaks Hindi) D.

With 197 first class centuries, the answer is...

D, Jack Hobbs!

Jamal Malik! Millionaire!

Do the dance! Come on!

Well done! Well done.

Are you ready for the final question?

For 20 million rupees.

No. But maybe it's written.

Maybe.

Okay. The final question! On who wants to be a...

What a show ladies and gentlemen! What a show!

Join us tomorrow night

to see if Jamal Malik has made the biggest mistake

of his life on just one answer. Biggest one.

This way.

Great show.

See you tomorrow ok.

Be on time. Bye.

What's going on?

- He's a cheat. - How do you know he's cheating?

(Speaks Hindi). I fed him the wrong answer, and he never should call it right.

You gave him an answer?

Not exactly. Well that doesn't matter. That's my show!

My f***ing show!

It is a bizarrely plausible, and yet...

Because I'm a slumdog, a chaiwalla,

I'm a liar right?

Most of you are.

But you are not a liar, Mr Malik. That's for sure.

You are too truthful.

We're done.

I don't know where they've taken her.

Latika.

I went on the show, because I thought she'd be watching.

Jamal Malik, an uneducated 18 year

old boy from the slums of Mumbay,

wins one draw by (?) player

And the crowd around me bears an even bigger question:

Will he be back tonight to play for another 20 million rupees?

Hey give me a kiss.

Go girls!

Yes, I couldn't hear a thing in there.

You've got to get us back into town.

As if it wasn't enough drama in a contestant reaching the final question,

Jamal Malik was last night arrested on suspicion of fraud.

That guy. (?) Clever.

Crazy "chudge".

Here, go.

But...

Just drive. There won't be another chance.

He will kill you.

I'll take care of him.

Salim, I can't.

You have to.

(?) out of this.

Evil what I've done please forgive me.

Have a good life.

You're back on the show.

Come on!

Jamal? The millionaire?

The multi-millionaire? The one with all the cash?

Go son, go with my blessing and win it all.

We love you Jamal!

The nation's gripped with millionaire fever.

As Jamal Malik, an uneducated (?) from the Juhu slum in Mumbay,

won a staggering 10 million rupee

on a television show who wants to be a millionaire,

and estimated 90 million people watching us tonight

to see if he will make a one stage further to 20 million rupees.

Where is everyone? Get back in there!

Get back to work!

Chaiwalla?

Welcome back to who wants to be a millionaire.

I can safetly say that tonight

is the biggest night of both our lives.

Jamal Malik, the call assistant worker from Mumbay,

has already won 10 million.

He can walk away with that in his pocket

or make the biggest gamble in television history.

to go for the final question

and a staggering 20 million rupees.

Are you ready for that question?

Yes. - Jamal!

Big reader you, Jamal?

I can read.

Lucky.

In Alexandre Dumas' book, the "The Three Musketeers",

two of the musketeers are called Athos and Porthos.

What was the name of the third Musketeer?

A:
Aramis

B:
Cardinal Richelieu

C:
D'Artagnan

D:
Planchet

She could be the third musketeer.

Final question for 20 million rupees, and he is smiling.

I guess you know the answer.

Do you believe it, I don't.

You don't?

So you take the 10 million and walk?

No. I'll play.

Let remind you, Jamal.

If you get the answer wrong,

you lose everything.

It's a fortune.

I'd like to phone a friend.

You're going to the wire.

The final lifeline. Here we go.

It's ringing!

Who is it?

That's my brother's number, but...

The kind of brother, who go for a walk on a 20 million rupee question?

It's the only number I know.

You are on your own, Jamal.

Hello?

Hello, Jamal?

I'm guessing that isn't your brother.

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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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