Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film.
Despite the film’s success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.
Plot: 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 India¹s “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 show¹s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show¹s 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.
Cast
* Dev Patel as Jamal Malik
o Ayush Mahesh Khedekar as Youngest Jamal
o Tanay Chheda as Middle Jamal
* Freida Pinto as Latika
o Rubina Ali as Youngest Latika.
o Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar as Middle Latika
* Madhur Mittal as Salim, Jamal’s elder brother.
o Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail as Youngest Salim.
o Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala as Middle Salim
* Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar
* Irrfan Khan as the Police Inspector
* Saurabh Shukla as Constable Srinivas
* Mahesh Manjrekar as Javed
* Ankur Vikal as Maman
* Rajendranath Zutshi as the Millionaire show producer
* Sanchita Choudhary as Jamal’s mother
* Shah Rukh Munshi as a slum kid.
* Mozhim Shakim Sheikh Qureshi as a crippled slum kid.
* Janet de Vigne as the German tourist at the Taj Mahal.
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