Slumdog Millionare Essay

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Adil Lalani Linda Pointer HUM 2270 – Section 2386 Paper #1 8/30/13 Slumdog Millionaire Being born in India, I have found it to be a very diverse and cultural country. From its vast variety of spoken languages to its people’s unique way of living has always fascinated me. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is a great example of some of the many aspects in an Indian’s life. The movie takes place in Mumbai, India. At the beginning of the movie, Jamal, who is eighteen at that time, is currently a contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is the Indian version of the American game show “Who wants to be a Millionaire?”. The situation is that Jamal is only one question away from winning the top prize of one crore which is twenty million rupees. Although the audience has no doubts, the host, Prem, can’t believe how a boy from the slums of Mumbai can achieve this high level of intelligence and keeps his eyes on Jamal. When Jamal reaches the second to the last question of the show, the host decides to convince Jamal that the choice of Ricky Pointing is right even though he knew that it wasn’t. When Jamal refuses to take the host’s advice, and gets the answer right, the host is convinced that Prem is cheating and gets him arrested on that account. During his harsh interrogation, Jamal states that each of the questions that he was asked referred to a part of his life from where he learned the answer from. From there on, Jamal shares those moments of his life and how he got the answers. Jamal and Malik were both brothers who live along with a girl named Latika in a slum in the city of Mumbai. They had close to no money. Their mother had lost her life during an attack against Muslims in their neighborhood. Jamal was very different from Salim although they shared the same needs, mainly money. Many times they had to resort to the criminal ways of robbery and even

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