Slumdog Millionaire

Year:

2008

Duration:

120 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

8

Director:

Danny Boyle

Awards:

Won 8 Oscars. Another 149 wins & 88 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2008-12-25

Filming Locations: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Earnings

Budget: $15,000,000

Opening Weekend: $360,018 (USA) (16 November 2008)

Gross: $141,319,195 (USA) (24 May 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Rubina Ali

Slumdog Millionaire

Dev Patel

Older Jamal

Saurabh Shukla

Sergeant Srinivas

Anil Kapoor

Prem

Rajendranath Zutshi

Director

Jeneva Talwar

Vision Mixer

Freida Pinto

Older 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

Virendra Chatterjee

Slum Man

Feroze Khan

Amitabh Bachchan

Sunil Kumar Agrawal

Mr Chi

Virender Kumar

Man on Fire (as Virender Kumar Gharu)

Devesh Rawal

Blue Boy

Ankur Vikal

Maman

Tiger

Punnoose

Chirag Parmar

Young Arvind

Nazneen Shaikh

Baby

Farzana Ansari

Latika's Friend

Anupam Shyam

Old Villager

Salim Chaus

Ticket Collector

Singh Shera Family

Family in Train

Harvinder Kaur

Family in Train

Narendra Singh Bhati

Family in Train

Tanay Chheda

Middle Jamal

Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala

Middle Salim

Satya Mudgal

Taj Mahal Guide

Janet de Vigne

Ada

William Relton

Peter

David Gilliam

Clark

Mia Drake Inderbitzin

Adele

Kinder Singh

Driver

Christine Matovich Singh

Opera Singer

Thomas Lehmkuhl

Opera Singer

Siddesh Patil

Older Arvind

Najma Shaikh

Woman at Brothel

Saeeda Shaikh

Woman at Brothel

Alka Satpute

Woman at Brothel

Tabassum Khan

Woman at Brothel

Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar

Middle Latika

Sitaram Panchal

Dance Teacher

Nigel Caesar

Hotel Security Guard

Ajit Pandey

Javed's Goon

Kedar Thapar

Javed's Goon

Amit Leonard

Javed's Goon

Rajesh Kumar

Javed's Goon

Sagar Ghopalkar

Javed's Goon

Pradeep Solanki

Javed's Goon

Abdul Hamid Shaikh

Javed's Goon

Dheeraj Waghela

Javed's Goon

Shruti Seth

Call Centre Instructor (as Shruti S Seth)

Arfi Lamba

Bardi

Taira Colah

Nasreen

Varun Bagri

Call Centre Trainee

Ankur Tewari

Dave

Anjum Sharma

Operator

Madhur Mittal

Older Salim

Sarfaraz Khan

Autorickshaw Driver

Syed Fazal Hussain

Autorickshaw Driver (as Syed Hussain)

Umar Khan

Autorickshaw Driver (as Umer Khan)

Imran Hasnee

Javed's House Doorkeeper

Homai Billimoria

KBC Contestant

Udayan Baijal

Cricket Commentator

Sandeep Kaul

Floor Manager

Rufee Ahmed

Double for Irrfan Khan

Rhea Lawyer

TV Reporter

Deepali Dalvi

Dancer at Javed's Safehouse

Anisha Nagar

Dancer at Javed's Safehouse

Farrah Shaikh

Dancer at Javed's Safehouse

Mamta Sharma

Dancer at Javed's Safehouse

Neha M. Khatarawalla

Dancer at Javed's Safehouse

Tanya Singh

Newsreader

Anand Tiwari

Newsreader

Faezeh Jalali

Newsreader

Meghana Jhalani

Newsreader

Rupali Mehra

Newsreader

Anju Singh

Newsreader

Saurabh Agarwal

Call Centre Manager

Mark Boucher

Himself - South African Cricketer (archive footage)

Andre Nel

Himself - South African Cricketer (archive footage)

Yuvraj Singh

Himself - Indian Cricketer (archive footage)

Sachin Tendulkar

Himself - Indian Cricketer (archive footage)

Amitabh Bachchan

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Not only did Dev Patel and Freida Pinto play a couple onscreen, the two actors shared a real-life relationship until late 2014.

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Local Indian authorities decided to step in and move the children and their families from slums to new houses.

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The film used a prototype Digital Cinema Camera from Silicon Imaging. When used in Mumbai, there were SI technicians on set constantly to deal with any problems the prototype had, of which there were many.

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Goofs

Both Jamal and Salim speak fluent English when they're teenagers. The movie was originally supposed to all be in English, yet the actors that played young Jamal and young Salim had some trouble with speaking English. Director Danny Boyle asked producers to have the beginning in Hindi, and colored the subtitles to make them more appealing. From the storyline, Jamal and Salim probably learned from tourists.

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The original TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" is recorded in studio some days before the actual broadcast. The show that we see in the film is broadcast live, which raises the incongruence that the person from home can easily see the question on TV, having plenty of time to come up with an answer before receiving the actual call. This explains the need to have the questions reread on the phone, and the credibility of the time limit. Moreover, the call itself is never directed to a mobile number, to prevent connection troubles, and for the same reason it's never issued directly when the contestant asks for it; the call is first made in the very moment the contestant begins his round and it's then kept live (but soundless) until the contestant calls for the hotline. As a side fact, after the hotline has been used the contact is still kept, so the contestant's people can hear live what happens from then on. However, this kind of show may have a 10-15-minute time delay.

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In the final question, the apostrophe is shown as after the s in Dumas'. However, when it shows Javed on the phone, the television in the background shows the question, and Dumas' is spelled as Dumas's.

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Quotes

Prem Kumar: Its getting hot in here.

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Jamal Malik: If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother.

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Javed: My enemy's enemy is a friend.

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Faq

Q

Is there a soundtrack release available?

A

The soundtrack, which is composed by A.R. Rahman with contributions by M.I.A., was released exclusively on iTunes in November 2008. A CD release came out in December.

Q

What is a chai wallah?

A

Chai is simply the Hindi word for tea. A chai wallah is a person who provides tea, either by selling or bringing it. This is Jamal's position in the call center where he works when he appears on the game show. If you watch closely in the scene where the Jamal and Malik are young kids and are being chased through the slums of Juhu, the word "chai wallah" appears a few times.

Q

How did Jamal get on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

A

The movie doesn't show how or when Jamal called and got accepted to be on the show. However, it does imply in one scene that he knew the precise moment to call -- when show host Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) says "if" -- because that's when they open the phone lines. He knows this because one of the call center operators who worked on the phone system told him.

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