Danny Boyle’s multi-award-winning, highly exhilarating drama, about a teenager reflecting on his upbringing in the Mumbai slums as he plays for a million on a popular gameshow.
18-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) sits in the hot seat on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. One question away from the grand prize, he suddenly finds himself accused of cheating. Through a series of flashbacks, Jamal recounts the incidents in his life that got him to this point, with him and his brother Salim fighting to survive on the streets of Mumbai after the death of their mother.
A sleeper hit on its release in 2008, Slumdog Millionaire was a critical and popular sensation, nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning eight. Feel-good and furiously paced, it holds its reputation today as a contemporary classic that marries Hollywood melodrama with a vibrant snapshot of a rapidly expanding India.
This screening is part of our Switched On monthly screenings.
- DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle
- CAST: Dev Patel, Irrfan Khan, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto
- LANGUAGE: English
