Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal Malik, An 18-year-old slum orphan in Mumbai, just one step away from winning the game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and winning 20 million rupees.

Interrupting the game, he is arrested by the police on suspicion of fraud. How can a youngster who grew up on the street know so much?

During the interrogation in the police Jamal tells a sad storyhis life: about the experiences he had with his brother, about the skirmishes with local gangs, about his tragic love. Each chapter of personal history surprisingly gave him answers to the questions of the quiz show.

When the game is resumed, the police inspector and sixty million viewers will want find out the answer to only one question: why this young man, without a clear desire for wealth, decided to participate in the TV program?

year
2008

a country
United Kingdom

tagline
"What can love return?"

Starring:

Dev Patel

Saurabh Shukla

Anil Kapoor

Rachendranath Zoutshi

Geneva Talvar

Frida Pinto

Irfan Khan

Azharuddin Mohammed Ishmael

Ayush Mahesh Khedakar

Fat of Banjar

producer
Danny Boyle, Lovelin Tandan

scenario
Simon Bofoy, Vikas Swarup

producer
Christian Colson, Francois Yvernel, Ivan McKinnon

operator
Anthony Dod Mantle

composer
A.R. Rahman

genre
melodrama, drama, ...

budget
$ 15,000,000

fees in the USA
$ 141,319,928

fees in the world
+ $ 236,097,365 = $ 377,417,293

fees in Russia
$ 3,462,843

DVD to the USA
$ 29,549,411

premiere
August 30, 2008

premiere (RF)
12 February 2009

DVD release
14 May 2009, 26 March 2009

release on Blu-ray
January 21, 2010

time
120 min.