TY - ADVS AU - Boyle,Danny AU - Tandan,Loveleen AU - Colson,Christian AU - Patel,Dev AU - Pinto,Freida,œd1984- AU - Mittal,Madhur AU - Kapoor,Anil AU - Khan,Irrfan AU - Rahman,A.R. AU - Swarup,Vikas ED - Celador Films ED - FilmFour (Firm) ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc ED - Pathe Productions TI - Slumdog millionaire U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2009/// CY - Beverly Hills, CA PB - Pathe Production, distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Orphans KW - India KW - Bombay KW - Drama KW - Television quiz shows KW - Suspicion KW - Police KW - Brothers N1 - Based on the novel: "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup; Originally released as a motion picture in 2008; Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; production designer, Mark Digby ; editor, Chris Dickens ; co-producer, Paul Ritchie ; co-executive producers, Cameron McCracken, Francois Ivernel ; music composed and produced by A.R. Rahman ; executive producers, Paul Smith, Tessa Ross; Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan N2 - Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Every chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible questions. When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers watch to find out if he can answer the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love ER -