Jamal,a chai-wala from one of the many slums gets a chance to play in a TV reality show "Who Wants to be a millionaire?".He goes on answering all the questions.This gives raise to suspicion on how an uneducated chai wala is able to answer all the questions?Before the final round he is handed over to the police for interrogation.There he explains how he is able to answer the questions.His explanations give an insight to the lives of many a people and describes his life till now...The film do give raise to some controversies,but as a film it is very good and also the music in the film is very good.Its always hard to accept an outsider to come and make a film with facts which were their for ages.But when a nation is not ashamed of maintaining slums or poverty then why should it protest when someone shows it in a film?Probably the international castings and the urge to make an international status the main characters (including the slum dwellers) talk in fluent English.It could have used Hindi with English subtitles.Selim, Jamal's older brother,reminded me strongly of the film "City of God".
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