Why was this not eligible for the Foreign Film Oscar? They are taught songs of the blind poet Surdas and learn they will likely be blinded when they finish learning the songs, in order to work as blind, singing beggars. He was given the opportunity to play Who wants to be a millionaire? Why Did Salim Fill The Bathtub With Money? What are the causes of this phenomena? She is in the red light district, being trained in the art of seduction, with the promise that her virginity will one day fetch a lot of money for Maman and the other gangsters. He tells them that he killed Maman while pulling out the revolver, as Javed Khan comes up behind him, asking if he actually killed Maman. In the movie this is shown when the police officers are torturating Jamal because they say he cheated, and they wouldnt believe when he said he didnt. Answering to the first question, the title refers to change. Father Timothy and the Catholic Church do not appear in the movie, nor does Delhi.When Father Timothy is murdered by another priest, Ram is sent to a juvenile home, where, as the only boy who speaks English, he becomes the leader of the 150 residents.After one year, a new resident Salim Ilyasi, age seven, arrives as an orphan when a Hindu mob murders his Muslim family. Suddenly Jamal attacks Salim and the boys struggle. Danny Boyle uses a slowed-down frame in order to show Jamal's memories throughout the film. However, it does imply in one scene that he knew the precise moment to callwhen show host Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) says "if"because that's when they open the phone lines. Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. The next day, Salim comes back to the hotel and tells Jamal to get out of the room. They can hear through the apartment walls. Salim tells what happened during his absence. At the end he realized that money does not bring happiness. And their final destination is the same as the brothers from the movie. I believe there is a relation between the title and the movie, because the title is SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and it deals with the surprise somone gets when he sees that a slumdug has become a millionaire. Salim's death Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. Immediately after the dance scene, the gang erupts into the empty train station and slaughters Jamal and Latika. He claimed that there was a tendency among boys to get very muscular, and they didn't seem like underdogs. There is no such scene in the book, although its possibility is suggested.For three years, from ages eleven through thirteen, Ram works as a daytime houseboy for a retired movie actress in her forties named Neelima Kumari. I think that the government should take care about the organization of the slums, offer employment opportunities and provide basic human resources like clean water, food, better lighting, sanitarity and infrastructure. This is Jamal's position in the call center where he works when he appears on the game show. Mumbai and Lima: Comparing Limas slums with Munbais slums Is "Slumdog Millionaire" based on a book? In the movie slumdog millionaire first the social exclusion in were a country is divided in two the first of the rich people with no problem, but doesnt accept the reality of his own country that is the misery in were people doesnt have education like is said in this movie, then we can see economic isolation on the ways of survive of the people like stealing or in the case of Jamal and salim selling fake tours to the taj mahal and finally the political exclusion, if we see the show who wants to be a millionaire the presenter is a rich and famous person and people from the slums are used like slaves in case of latika exploited by a person who wants to sell her because she were virgin When Maman tells the men to take Salim and Jamal away, Salim pulls out a gun and threatens Maman with it, ordering him to get on his knees, then telling the other men to get on their knees and demanding money from them. He filled the bathtub with money because money was always like "the best" for him. (A) Aramis, (B) Cardinal Richelieu, (C) D'Artagnan, or (D) Planchet.Answers: (1) A; (2) A; (3) D; (4) A; (5) C; (6) A; (7) D; (8) D; (9) A. I think that the producers give this name to the movie to attract the attention of the people because is strange. The government should provide condomms or another source of preservatives so the people in the slums can have sexual intercourse without having to many children and so they learn to be more responsible with their lives because most parents abandon their homes after a while. Is Slumdog Millionaire Hollywood or Bollywood? Why does Salim kill himself in Slumdog Millionaire? Jamal stalls, before saying the correct answer, Benjamin Franklin. For example when I first saw the title of the movie I imagine that it will be a slum dog that wins a kind of lottery or something like that, so in this case the title gives you a very close idea of the movie. Salim and Jamal shared lots of adventures but he betrayed his own brother in order to earn money. Also, there's an old saying. This image will set the scene for Jamal's ascension, as he continues to be a lower-class character who manages to commune with greatness. It then begins to flow into the pipe itself. "This is our destiny," Jamal whispers. Edit, The award is for a foreign language film. Metacritic Reviews. He loses his nerve, and rather than pull the trigger he offers to spare Prem's life if he tells the answer to the new question #12, which he does.After winning the grand prize, again, Ram is arrested by police who try to torture him into signing a confession of cheating. The title plot gives us the clue to find that as a slumdog he will have a lot of problems during the programme. While Salim does not care about finding her, Jamal has a firm belief that he will be able to locate his childhood sweetheart, sifting through the 90 million people in the city. In Who wants to be a millionaire? It is that the money is blood money, like the money that he earned with working for Javed and because all the murders and robberies. | our school is a very good school, but these type of schools (the private ones) are from rich and normal people who had a normal home, the ones who live in slums are the ones who study in the public schools and we have to inprove the education in the public schools. . (A) Samuel Colt, (B) Bruce Browning, (C) Dan Wesson, or (D) James Revolver. How far is Las Vegas from the California coast? In my oponion, the cause of this phenomena is the migration. While it seems that the climactic eventJamal winning the game showis revealed within the first few moments of the film, the sequence of events that lead to this victory are far less straightforward than one might have imagined. This wood-encased period galvanized tin tub is in Astoria, Oregon's 1885 Flavel House museum. | Eventually, Jamal's quest to find Latika and tie up the loose ends of his dramatic past become the narrative center of the film, and the game show is more of a device that helps to weave together his story than a narrative in and of itself. More books than SparkNotes. The tubs weren't a fixture, but a tub stored out of sight until needed, typically once or. What do you take away as the most important message or impression from the film? He is unable to see beyond himself, and his desire for power and wealth.. even if it means selling out his brother. Four answer choices are presented: (A) He cheated, (B) He's lucky, (C) He's a genius, and (D) It is written. His belief in his own desire gives wings to his wants in a way that approaches something magical or divine. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? Use a high-quality bubble bath product. They dont have the education and the material to keep forward and get away from their situation. Why or why not? The differences between Lima and Munbay they are a lot but I am going to explain you only 2 the first one is the people that live in each city Mumbay have 21 255 000 million people an Lima 8,5 million the second difference is that in lima we dont have cast system and in Munbay they have this system . He put a whole space between Latika and his brother, he made his brother suffer and did anything in order to get money and get out of the slums. Why does he make this choice? Salim's death Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. He dies after getting shot, bathing in a tub of money. So there are much more slums in India than in all South America. Directed by Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire received 10 nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, out of which the film bagged eight trophies. He makes this choice because he realizes that he has done a lot of damage to his brother and he wants to fix it sacrificing himself and killing all the men that were entering the room and then dying. The goverment might have to do something, like starting to give education to his children so they will have another mentality and they wouldnt steal, they would look for a job. Jamal Malik, face to this situations, demonstrate his disposition of never lose the hope, and never get up. Why did Salim put money in the bath? Probably as a show-off when he gets killed. Compare and contrast three pivotal choices or decisions made by Jamal and Salim. | The abuser of both women is the same man.In the movie, Jamal's love interest is Latika, a childhood friend from the slums who is forced into prostitution in Mumbai.After a separation of five years, Ram bumps into Salim on a Mumbai street. Loveleen Tandan, who supervised the dubbing, stated, All the actors from the original English including Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Ankur Vikal dubbed the film. At the same time that Jamal is winning, Salim fills a bathtub with money and sits in it, waiting for the death he knows will happen when Javed discovers what he has done. Also anonymus partners say that he is really strict with these kind of schools, that want to win a chance of a free trip. The co-director is an Indian who has not worked in Bollywood. It was adapted for the movie by British screenwriter Simon Beaufoy. I believe that what causes poverty is the lack of responsibility of their parents, who are not in a good situation, and use their children to earn more money. As we see in the movie most of the city of Mumbai is pure slums, but this place isnt the only one who is full of them, Lima is also one. And that also happens in Per. Later on, when Javed emerges as a powerful mafia don in Mumbai, Salim becomes a conman of Javed and Latika becomes Javed's kept girl. As 18-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) answers questions on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, flashbacks show how he got there. Also, he starts thinking that he has taken the corrupt way to survive and get money and he has passed through all the vices. there lots of slums and poor people who lives there and they study in schools of poor learning. the policeman asks, which launches us back into Jamal's story. Why does Salim fill the bathtub with money? Awards Nightmare in the movie: In the movie yes it present because like Lima and Mumbai the city is very poor, there are slums, child traffic, etc. Meanwhile Salim, back in the safe house, sacrifices himself in order to stop Javed from coming after Latika and Jamal. In the film, the theme of destiny is a central theme. Salim put twenty million rupees worth of bills into the bathtub where he died. Although Pinto was born and raised in Mumbai, she is best known for her roles in various British and American films. What is this film staying about the effect of money on culture? He also takes that decision for do something good in his life for redeem his self and help his brother because he knows that his brother never give up. represents a hope, a chance to escape from their reality, if you became Millionarie why you wanna stay on the Slum? In the movie, and in the up-dated quiz show, the top prize is two crore rupees, or twenty million rupees. Sorry, Slumdog Millionaire is not available on Indian Netflix, but you can unlock it right now in India and start watching! For Jamal, destiny is not simply what happens to you, but a more complicated confluence of events and occurrences with actions one takes. Next, use a screwdriver to disconnect the handle of the faucet. (A) Surdas, (B) Tulsidas, (C) Mira Bai, or (D) Kabir. In his life he crossed many difficulties, like: He loses his mother (unique family without his brother), his brother dont have a good moral rationality, etc. Money clearly plays an important role in Slumdog Millionaire because it directly ties to the story's central plot device: the game show. Im going to compare the slums in Munbai, and the slums in Lima. The film also won the Oscar for best film, direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and sound mixing for Resul Pookutty. This was similar to Bruschke & Ricke's combined sofa and bathtub of the same period. the tittle, as already you should know, its Slumdog millionaire, now there are two opposite terms that discribe two different persons, life styles, etc. Two of the main cast members and most of the crew are Indians who have worked in Bollywood. Teach them how to get out of that situation, working and changing the situation. I think that the title is obviously contradictory because a slum dog is normally poor, without money; but in the title it sais that this slum dog is millionaire, a thing that its hard to believe. Salim Malik makes the decision of filled up the bathtub with all Javed money, because he want a redemption because from the beginning of his life, he always wanted to be rich, and at the end, he want to know that he was going to die, like he always want, rich. This tub, disguised as a mirrored wardrobe, folded down and out of its wood casing into the room, revealing the heater above. As can be seen in the film Slumdog Millionaire, Mumbai poverty is almost equal to that of Lima, and survives the most cunning, as you have to know how to survive on the streets, where no one is trustworthy, stealing food, lying people and so on. How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film? Secondly, the life in the slums of Lima is very hard too, but it isnt with a lot of garbage or some dead animals, but they have a lot of difficulties too, like the economy problems or health problems, etc. He was hopeless and depressed. The word millionaire gives us a clue, which is the real life show Who wants to be a Millionaire?, by doing some crytichal thinking, we can predict that a poor guy will attemp to become a millionaire by entering the show and make his best guess, by the way, theres no denying its controversial apealing. She then reveals herself to be Gudiya, from the chawl, whose father had suffered only a broken leg when Ram pushed him from the balcony, and who had stopped raping Gudiya after his fall.Gudiya gets him his prize money, Ram marries Nita, Salim becomes a movie star, and the crippled children are liberated from their imprisonment.In the movie, Jamal never carries a gun and never shoots or threatens anybody. The Movie is saying that the program Who wants to be a Millionaire? In my point of view y think, that there is a solution, I think that the government give more opportunities for the people who have small business, the government need to give money so they can grow his own business, but before that I think that the government need to give a few classes for teach that people how to keep the money safe and how you need to do for grow your own job, so that kind of few and easy examples can do the government for keep a population without slums. When Boyle met him, he had found his Jamal. He decided to do something for his brother becouse around the entire movie he didnt do anything for his brother. Jamal's motive for going on the show is to attract the attention of Latika, with whom he has lost contact (despite her being in the custody of his brother Salim). The scene shifts back to the policemen's office. After all, earlier he does seem to be attracted to her when she is in dancing for the advert for Maman. nothing was out of His Reach, but they felt like if the were limited to some things beacuse of marginalization. Salim convinced Latika to have sex with him the night they were rescued to, at least according to him, take away one of her valuable assets. Rahman's soundtrack with vocals from Suzanne, "Great DJ" by Ting Tings, and "Hopppolla" by Sigur Rs, which plays for the majority of the trailer until its end. Since the film was made in India, the scene was likely added as a tribute to Bollywood. Millionaire in this movie means sincerely loved. In an attempt to prove his innocence, Jamal relates his life story, concentrating on the experiences that describe how he came to know the answers to each of the quiz questions. Instead his brother did the same, but in the bad way, being in the mafia. It is sad that the things in common are the most terrible aspects of their live because this simply means that there is more people in the world living in this inhuman state. Why does he make this choice? bc he is from the slums & they thought he wouldn't be smart enough. We only see his left eye in the frame, just after he has blinded a young boy to make him a more valuable beggar. Why does he make this choice? In the show Who wants to be a millionaire, all the questions they asked him, were important moments in his life, but he didnt have the last answer of the the last question: who is the third musketeer, he used his last lifeline in calling his brother, but Latika answered the call. Back on the game show, Jamal answers a question about Cambridge Circus, the answer to which he learned working at the call center. In this section of the flashback, Jamal becomes more intent on finding Latika, and sets about searching for her in the city. Its heavily implied but never confirmed that the reason why Salim wanted Jamal out of the room was because that he wanted Latika. So, what we can realize when we see this title for the first time is that the movie is about a slumdog who, by luck, became millionaire. because if we do that, the children who had born in slums will get more oportunities of work and they will get a better payement.