Danny Boyle · 2008 · road

Danny Boyle's 2008 film. Jamal, a teenager from the Mumbai slums, is one question away from winning India's 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' - and each answer unlocks a chapter of his hard life. Orphaned by riots, he and his brother Salim ride the rails across India, hustling tourists at the Taj Mahal in Agra and back to Mumbai, chasing survival and the girl Jamal cannot forget.

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   Mumbai

   The Dharavi slums where Jamal and his brother Salim grow up, orphaned by anti-Muslim riots, surviving by their wits on the streets of India's teeming financial capital.

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   Agra

   Where the runaway brothers wash up, working the Taj Mahal as fake tour guides and thieves - one of the stops on their years riding the trains across the length of India.

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   Mumbai

   Back in the transformed, booming Mumbai as a young man, Jamal takes a call-centre job and goes on the quiz show - not for money, but in the hope that the lost love of his life is watching.