Slumdog Millionaire: Book vs. Movie
Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle with co-director Loveleen Tandan, is based on Vikas Swarup's 2005 novel Q & A. Dev Patel plays a quiz-show contestant whose life holds the answers to the questions he faces.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Vikas Swarup
- Year
- 2005
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 2 hr 19 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Anand Tiwari, Sohrab Ardeshir, Henry Goodman, Caran Arora, Rajit Kapur
After answering every question on a television quiz show, young waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas is arrested because nobody believes he could have won honestly. To explain his extraordinary run, he tells a lawyer about the people and places that have shaped his life. Each answer has a history, leading through orphanages, employers' homes, friendships, and encounters he would rather forget.
- Director
- Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
- Writer
- Simon Beaufoy
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 2 hr
- Cast
- Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan
- Genre
- coming-of-age, crime, drama, romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
One question away from a huge television prize, Mumbai tea-server Jamal Malik is detained on suspicion of cheating. Under interrogation, he revisits a childhood spent surviving with his brother Salim and searching for Latika, the girl they once knew. His memories explain how he knows the answers, but money is not the only reason he wants to return to the show.
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