Hit British film Slum dog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture.
This film is about three poor childs who are Jamal (Dev Patel), Litika (Freida Pinto) and Salim Malik (Madhur Mittal) are found by Maman (Ankur Vikal), a gangster who tricks and then trains street children into becoming beggars. When Jamal, Salim, and Latika learn Maman is blinding children in order to make them more profitable as singing beggars, they flee by jumping onto a departing train. Latika catches up and takes Salim's hand, but Salim purposely lets go, and captured by the gangsters. Over the next few years, Salim and Jamal make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, working as dish washers, and pretending to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal, where they steal people's shoes.
Jamal a street child manages to get on to who wants to be a millionaire ? (Indian version) and he is a question away of wining the grand price of 20 million rupees. However before winning the 20 million Rupees question he is suspected of cheating because he is a simple "slum dog." They take him to the police station and ask him questions. They electrocute him and hit him to get the answers out of him but he still said " I never cheated ".
They put the video tape of Who wants to be a millionaire ? in front of him on the TV. He tells the police man his life story about how he knows the answer to the questions. Then he has flash backs of what the answers where. The police believes him an no charges are held agienst him. After this he returns to Who wants to be a millionaire ? to answers the 20 million rupees question. He was given the question and he couldn't answer it . He had one life line left he used it was phone a friend. This film is about three poor childs who are Jamal (Dev Patel), Litika (Freida Pinto) and Salim Malik (Madhur Mittal) are found by Maman (Ankur Vikal), a gangster who tricks and then trains street children into becoming beggars. When Jamal, Salim, and Latika learn Maman is blinding children in order to make them more profitable as singing beggars, they flee by jumping onto a departing train. Latika catches up and takes Salim's hand, but Salim purposely lets go, and captured by the gangsters. Over the next few years, Salim and Jamal make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, working as dish washers, and pretending to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal, where they steal people's shoes.
Jamal a street child manages to get on to who wants to be a millionaire ? (Indian version) and he is a question away of wining the grand price of 20 million rupees. However before winning the 20 million Rupees question he is suspected of cheating because he is a simple "slum dog." They take him to the police station and ask him questions. They electrocute him and hit him to get the answers out of him but he still said " I never cheated ".
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The director of this film is Danny Boyle, Produced by Chrisitan Colson and writen by Simon Beaufoy
The budget for the film is $15 million and the gross revenue is £377,910,544
Running time is 120 minutes,
Language it is in is English and Hindi
Release date was 12 November 2008 ( United States ), 9 January 2009 ( United Kingdom)
Music by A.R.Rahman
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