Slumdog Millionaire

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Romance

Release Year: 2008

Country: UK

Runtime: 120 min

Languages: English | Hindi | French

Director: Danny Boyle

Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)

Tagline: Love and money… You have mixed them both.

 

Writers: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) Vikas Swarup (novel)

 

Cast: Dev Patel … Jamal K. Malik
Saurabh Shukla … Sergeant Srinivas
Anil Kapoor … Prem Kapur
Rajendranath Zutshi … Director (as Raj Zutshi)
Jeneva Talwar … Vision Mixer
Freida Pinto … Latika
Irrfan Khan … Police Inspector
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail … Youngest Salim
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar … Youngest Jamal
Jira Banjara … Airport Security Guard (as Hira Banjara)
Sheikh Wali … Airport Security Guard
Mahesh Manjrekar … Javed
Sanchita Choudhary … Jamal's Mother
Himanshu Tyagi … Mr Nanda
Sharib Hashmi … Prakash

 

Plot: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

 

Awards: Won 8 Oscars. Another 98 wins & 47 nominations

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