12-15 November at 9pm
26-29 November at 6.30pm
Certificate: 14
Set and filmed in India, the film tells the story of a young man, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He exceeds people's expectations, thereby arousing the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials.
Jamal is taken into police custody, where he is tortured as the police attempt to learn how he, a simple "slumdog", could know the answers to so many questions. While watching a tape of the show, question by question Jamal tells his whole story, explaining how his life experiences coincidentally enabled him to know the answer to each question, conveyed in a series of flashbacks documenting the details of his childhood.
The police inspector (Irrfan Khan) calls Jamal's explanation "bizarrely plausible" and, realizing he is not in it for the money, allows him to return ...[striped] |
