A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all th... Read allA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
- Won 8 Oscars
- 153 wins & 133 nominations total
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- (as Sunil Aggarwal)
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- TriviaDirector Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the 3 lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an auto-rikshaw driver to take the kids to school every day until they are 16 years old.
- GoofsIn one scene, when teenage Salim and Jamal are at the Taj Mahal, there is an external shot where a passing guard looks at the camera and says, "Stop filming. Stop filming." This was included purposely by director Danny Boyle for the sake of realism.
- Quotes
Police Inspector: [whispering] Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's won 10 million.
[pause]
Police Inspector: What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
[spits out blood]
Jamal Malik: [quietly and gently] I knew the answers.
- Crazy creditsSeveral of the cast perform a traditional Bollywood song and dance number set in a train station over the end credits.
- ConnectionsEdited from Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000)
- SoundtracksO... Saya
Written and performed by A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
Produced by A.R. Rahman
Published by K.M. Musiq Ltd./Imagen Music
Guitars by Sanjay Joseph
Additional Music Produced by P.A.Deepak
Recorded at A M Studios Chennai
Music Engineers : P.A.Deepak , Viviane & H. Sridhar
Song Mixed by P.A.Deepak
Mixed at Panchathan Rec Inn Chennai
I saw the film on at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival as a "sneak preview." The film was introduced by Boyle who said that the official opening of the film would be the next weekend at the Toronto Film Festival. He also said that there may be some final tweaking of the film prior to Toronto.
In the discussion after the film Boyle strongly recommended three Indian made films: Satya, Company and Black Friday. He described each as superb. Boyle also stated that a portion of the Slumdog Millionaire was shot with a Canon EOS still camera, especially around the Taj Mahal, rather than a proper movie camera which creates unwanted attention while filming at popular tourist locations in India.
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- Triệu Phú Ổ Chuột
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $141,319,928
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $360,018
- Nov 16, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $378,411,362
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1