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A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Theatrical
Dec 25, 2008
Box Office
$378.4M
Budget
$15.0M
Return
25.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 31, 2009
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Studio
Celador Films, Film4 Productions
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Dev Patel
Older Jamal
F
Freida Pinto
Older Latika
M
Madhur Mittal
Older Salim
A
Anil Kapoor
Prem
M
Mahesh Manjrekar
Javed
S
Saurabh Shukla
Sergeant Srinivas
I
Irrfan Khan
Police Inspector
A
Ankur Vikal
Maman
T
Tanay Chheda
Middle Jamal
A
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar
Youngest Jamal
R
Raj Zutshi
Director
J
Jeneva Talwar
Vision Mixer
S
Sharib Hashmi
Prakash
M
Mia Drake
Adele
S
Shruti Seth
Call Centre Instructor
A
Anjum Sharma
Operator
S
Sanchita Choudhary
Jamal's Mother
S
Sunil Kumar Agrawal
Mr Chi
A
Anupam Shyam
Old Villager
H
Harvinder Kaur
Family in Train
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*About the difference between the movie and the book. Koenraad Elst, On Modi Time : Merits And Flaws of Hindu Activism In Its Day Of Incumbency – 2015. Ch.7 Vikas Swarup
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Manipulation of Identity in Slumdog Millionaire
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explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while ] had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media.
[Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based; [w:Danny Boyle|Boyle]
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