"Slumdog Millionaire" is 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 "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.
Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this 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...


Really good movie. My first legally watched nc 16 movie though I felt nothing nc about it. Caught it with a few church friends. The transitions of how this 18 year old explained how he could answer each question and eventually win 20 million rupees which is about 5 million sgd was really good.

The story of this 3 young children from the slums all the way till they become adults is so sweet. All their hardships, all the unfairness in their lives, dangers etc. And in all this, the climax and tension is crazy. when you thought it was gonna end up like that, it turned out to be the exact opposite.

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Like how I thought the host had actually gave him the answer to the second last question to winning 20 million, but in fact the host had tricked him cause the host wanted to remain as the only one in history to have turned from rags to riches.
And how when I thought jamal's older brother salim had tricked his own brother and backstabbed him, he actually was protecting him from all the dangers. His brother had kinda sacrificed himself for jamal just when I thought salim was betraying his brother.
I think the best part of the movie was when the question to 20 million was related back to the very front part about the three musketeers. The story's so beautifully crafted into how this 3 young kids from the slums had grew up and survived the madness of the world especially in India where it's like some third world country with stealing and corruption so common. It's not like those stories based on love blah blah blah but just from the innocence of 3 young kids growing up into a world of madness and their parents also were gone when they were so young.

Awesome movie, totally deserved all the awards it had won and I hope it gets as many oscars as it had been nominated for (: slu

On a side note, thanks everyone who wished me happy birthday. THANKS GUYS (: