Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Theme

The main theme of the movie is about Jamal searching for Latika, the love of his life. The reason that he is a contestant in "Who want to be a Millionaire" is because he knows that Latika watchs the show.  He has no idea where she is and how to find her. She has been sold, as a slave, to a rich gangster by his brother Salim.  When she tried to escape, to meet up with Jamal at the train station, just when they had laid eyes on one another, she was snatched by the gangsters.  Jamal knowing, that she had made a decision to be with him, was enough to motivate him to find her by any means.  The means brought him to a very unlikely place, which was a contestant in the show.  The host, not understanding how a poor, uneducated young man could know all the answers, turns him over to the police.  The host believes that he must be cheating and therefore gets very angry.  Jamal, after being tortured by the police, explains every event from his life that brought about him knowing the answers.  The police finally release him.  He goes back to the show where he has that last question to answer.

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