Slumdog Millionaire
2008
Academy Award for Best Picture — 81st Academy Awards
- Director:
- Danny Boyle
- Studio:
- Celador Films, Film4 Productions
- Starring:
- Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
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In 1992, five-year-old Jamal Malik, a resident of the Juhu slum in Mumbai, obtains Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's autograph after jumping into a cesspit; the crowds around Amitabh Bachchan are deterred by Jamal as he is covered head to toe in human feces. Jamal's elder brother Salim later sells the autograph. Their mother is killed during the Bombay riots.