Slumdog Millionaire (2008) on Netflix
Jamal Malik, an eighteen-year-old orphan who grew up poor in Mumbai, is one question away from the top prize on the Indian quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati. The police suspect he cheated.
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On the Indian quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati, Jamal Malik, a tea server from a Mumbai slum, keeps answering questions correctly and comes within one question of the grand prize. The program's staff and then the police doubt that a young man with no schooling could know so much, and he is accused of cheating. While he is held and questioned, Jamal recounts the life behind his answers: growing up in the Juhu slum with his older brother Salim, the years the two spent riding trains and selling goods to survive, and Latika, the girl he met as a child. An inspector replays the show and listens to how each answer came to him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Danny Boyle decided to translate nearly a third of the film's English dialogue into Hindi, then fibbed to Warner Independent's president that he wanted 10% of the dialogue in Hindi, and she approved the change.
- The producers' first choice to play the host Prem Kumar was Shah Rukh Khan, an established Bollywood star and host of the 2007 series of Kaun Banega Crorepati. Khan turned the role down, concerned about giving his audience the impression that the real show was a fraud.
- Slumdog Millionaire was the first film shot using digital cinematography to win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, which was given to Anthony Dod Mantle.
- The film reached number one in its second UK weekend and set a UK box office record: its earnings increased by 47%, the biggest ever increase for a UK saturation release, breaking the record previously held by Billy Elliot's 13%.
