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Winner of 8 Acadamy Awards and 7 Baftas including Best Film and Best Director. Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life. A Penniless eighteen year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire But when the show breaks for the night suddenly he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's 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... The result is the sweeping stylish intoxicatingly human experience of Slumdog Milliomaire the new film from acclaimed director Danny Boyle Trainspotting Shallow Grave Millions 28 Days Later Sunshine. Part exhilarating love story part eye catching journey into the underbelly of the so called maximum city of Mumbai part stirring tale of an Everyman's triumph against a harsh cynical world Slumdog Millionaire is a visceral action packed Dickensian epic for the 21st Century. At the heart of its exhuberant storytelling lies the the intriguing question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
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