Slumdog Millionaire is a movie about a teenager named Jamal living in the slums on Mumbai. He becomes a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He is extremely smart and gets to the last question before the grand prize. Before he can answer the question, he is detained by the police. They suspect him of cheating because they don't believe someone from his background could ever know all the answers. However, his life in the slums was the reason he knew all of the answers. During the show, he gets flashbacks of his life which give him the answers to the questions. The movie has scenes from both the present and the past. The earliest flashback is from when Jamal was five, and he and his brother are trying to get an autograph from a famous man named Amitabh Bachchan. Then it flashes back to when his mother was killed in the Bombay riots. It shows the first time he met his love, Latika. He and his brother take her in as their "third musketeer". Later, a gangster named Maman, tricks them into coming with him, saying he will take care of them. Instead he makes them beg for money on the streets. It only gets worse when he starts blinding the children to make them better beggars. Luckily, the brothers escape but Latika is still stuck with him. Over the next few years, Jamal and his brother make a living in any way they can, but Jamal is hoping to find Latika. When he finally finds her, she is working as a prostitute for Maman. The brothers rescue her but Jamal's brother holds a gun up to him and tells him to leave so that he and Latika can be alone. After that, Jamal doesn't see either of them for a long time. Now he is on the show trying to win the money but hoping to reconnect with Latika. He doesn't know the answer to the last question so he uses his phone a friend lifeline. He calls his brother, the only phone number he knows. Latika answers. She doesn't know the answer to the question but tells him she is safe. Jamal luckily picks the right answer and wins all of the money. Jamal and Latika meet at the train station and are reunited once and for all.
Possible Writing Topics: -Is it possible for someone from the slums to have more knowledge than someone who is from a more privileged background? -Is it fair that the children had to go through all of those bad things? -Can love be strong enough to get you through anything? -Was is wrong of the police to assume that Jamal was cheating just because of where he came from?
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