GradeSaver "Slumdog Millionaire Part 3: Latika Summary and Analysis". Here in Peru, the same thing occurs in slums. Also they must learn to keep their family and not abuse of the number of kids they have. In addition, we can say that Salim wanted to stop working with the Indian mob, but didnt know how, so the only option was to sacrifice himself. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. In order to make people more confortable the government should provide, in any possible way, more jobs so people can earn money without stealing it. there lots of slums and poor people who lives there and they study in schools of poor learning. 'The film is true to life,' says Rupesh, who claims to be 17 but looks several years younger." Javed Khan calls Salim over and offers him a position in the gang. ", The policeman still does not believe that Jamal knew the answers on the game show and asks why he would admit to being an accomplice to murder to avoid a charge of fraud. Not affiliated with Harvard College. Latika is shown living in Javed's apartment when Jamal comes there and sees her. How does the title and the contrast within it provide symbolic summary of the film? Jamal came from slums of Mumbai and became a millionaire on the game show. Edit, They were Hindu rioters, and she was a Muslim. Shantaram physically and sexually abuses his daughter until Ram pushes him off the balcony to his death, he thinks.Ram then flees back to Delhi, leaving Salim behind, and finds employment as a houseboy for an Australian diplomat and later as a tour guide at the Taj Mahal in Agra, where he falls in love with a prostitute named Nita who is battered by a customer who leaves cigarette burns on her breasts, similar to Neelima's injuries. Boyle is purposefully showing the shots of Latika running towards the phone and Salim layering money in the bath tub to create suspense for the audience as the figure out what will happen, and how each scene pieces into the end game of the movie. They do have houses, but these houses cant be really called like such. In the final scene, Jamal meets Latika in a train station where they share a kiss. My enemy's enemy is a friend." In my point of view y think, that there is a solution, I think that the government give more opportunities for the people who have small business, the government need to give money so they can grow his own business, but before that I think that the government need to give a few classes for teach that people how to keep the money safe and how you need to do for grow your own job, so that kind of few and easy examples can do the government for keep a population without slums. It is very difficult to survive in this type of problem because they do not have much money to eat, always have to be attached to someone, because you can be in the cap to survive. In Per, if we go to the poorest places in Lima, we would find the same we have seen in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. I also think that what we have to do with this problem, is go to that place and make a social work, to help them with some food or cleaning supplies. In the most graphically violent scene of the movie, a young beggar boy is drugged and blinded with acid while unconscious. After watching the film I was shocked by the similarities of the slums in Mumbai and the ones that we have here in Peru. Why does he make this choice? and he only played because he thought Latika (his true love) would see it and he could find her. (LogOut/ What Forced to make a guess, Jamal picks "Aramis" as his final answer. Most people choose the wrong way, because it is the easiest and also because they have no choice, because they have no education. (A) Samuel Colt, (B) Bruce Browning, (C) Dan Wesson, or (D) James Revolver. He claimed that there was a tendency among boys to get very muscular, and they didn't seem like underdogs. (3) For 16,000 rupees: In depictions of God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand? He sealed his destiny when he gave his phone to Latika, he knew Jamal will call to that number and that Jamed will hear Latika on the television and seek for him, but that way Salim will be able to kill Jamed. What does the title mean? Because he sacrificed himself to Jamal and Talika, live happy and together forever. In an attempt to prove his innocence, Jamal relates his life story, concentrating on the experiences that describe how he came to know the answers to each of the quiz questions. Why was this not eligible for the Foreign Film Oscar? How this problem began, is simple when the people doesnt treat the other with dignity and respect, insult or thinking that they doesnt have nothing at all, start when the people just want to see his own perspective of the live instead of turn around and see that maybe the world its not so great it have a great problem and that exclusion which no one should suffer. what does the title mean? Slums in the movie were huge and they were like in a surface. That is a big difference, because here if you dont have what to eat yo simply take a fruit from a tree or kill an animal and eat it. If think that the solution for this big problem here in Peru and probably in Mumbai also is the reorganization of the government. The bad education gives them a small idea of what moral is. As a result, there has been a disproportionate rise of slums and overcrowing in the city. He did it because the questions were about important moments in his life. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/SlumdogMillionaire. | Answer (1 of 7): It's partially historic and partially a practical reason. After all, earlier he does seem to be attracted to her when she is in dancing for the advert for Maman. "I owe Latika," says Jamal, and Arvind tells Jamal that Latika is on Pila Street, going by the name of "Cherry." While Jamal resists the life of a gangster, the easiest way to Are you referring to "Zanjeer" the film, or the novel, Slumdog Millionaire. External Reviews So, what we can realize when we see this title for the first time is that the movie is about a slumdog who, by luck, became millionaire. His surname comes from a family that adopted him for three days before giving him back to the church. If you say Ram ji Ki Jai Ho, it means "Victory be to Lord Rama". How did Salim earn a living at the start of the movie? *the classrooms are very small/crowded with students. "Not for one moment, it's our destiny," he says. Most of the times we have money and do not know what to do with it, and the best thing to do is use to help others. Poor people live in slums, and slums are no place to live, so to solve this problem, we need to end poverty, not only in Lima or Mumbai, in the world. the policeman asks, which launches us back into Jamal's story. Because here in Peru we have a commercial product equivalent to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? To that end it takes its structure from the greatest feel-good film of all time Its a Wonderful Life. A slumdog is a poor man with almost no opportunities to progress, so he/she cant be rich. Slumdog Millionaire won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture. 2000-year-old Roman Baths in the English city of Bath have been closed for public bathing since 1978 after a girl died of a meningitis-related illness. The comparison between Lima Slums To Mumbai slums are that, the problems of poverty are not reviewed by the politics and it is a problem that Is not only on Lima and Mumbai, is in all the world, near the school there is a popular slum, they name of that slum is Manchay, is a place that people dont have enough money to build their houses and dont have money for eat all days, they need helps from the people who have money, in Mumbai happened the same thing,, Mumbai have a large population and the government cant give money for everybody so some people need to live by his own ways, that kind of people are the sums. This is one of the purposes of the movie. She is in the red light district, being trained in the art of seduction, with the promise that her virginity will one day fetch a lot of money for Maman and the other gangsters. The decision of both affect in their destiny. The goverment might have to do something, like starting to give education to his children so they will have another mentality and they wouldnt steal, they would look for a job. When he answers question #12 and wins the billion-rupee grand prize, he is told that question didn't count and the real question #12 will come after the next commercial break.During the break, both Ram and the host, Prem Kumar, are in the bathroom alone together. The government has another problem because they mostly spend the money for useless things like buying too much arms because they are preparing the country for a possible war. Social, political and economic exclusion and represents a hope, a chance to escape from their reality, if you became Millionarie why you wanna stay on the Slum? Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. Per is Just like India in a lot of ways. This phenomenon appears because the government dont care about poor people then say that they care about but thats a lie. The love story, which is prominently featured in the film, was written by Beaufoy. Gmal is a slum who entered to that show to be seen by Latika and to try to win this game. Salim shoots Javed and is himself gunned down. ", Jamal tells the policemen that Latika is the most beautiful woman in the world, and when the older one makes a joke about her being a "slum bitch," Jamal attacks him angrily. They are focusing on meaningless things like paying more politicians to complete all the political parties when they dont realize that most part of the country needs urgent economical and moral help. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. Metacritic Reviews. Another important difference between both slums is that while Indian slums are in a constant religion war, here religions are not so varied and this negates the possibilities of having these conflicts. This is caused because there is too much people and no too much jobs. Actually, his poverty made him rich; its pretty ironic. How does the title and the We must summon the participation of private enterprise and of society because no one can remain indifferent, we need to have more people aware, to see the reality of our country, that should carry us to realize that there are some issues that if it can not be solved, if you can be creating a mindset that we are all responsible for keeping many people continue to live in subhuman conditions, so it is necessary to create a culture of conscience, only so we will have a better country with better opportunities for all, the poor are stigmatized, and should not be so. Mumbai and Lima: This is because the government doesnt know how to manage the money and lots of politicians steal it as the corruption increases in the country. For me, this action is really good for Salim and lives his conscience and soul more free and in a better condition. The Question and Answer section for Slumdog Millionaire is a great To solve this problem I think that money is not all that is needed, they need education, because if they are well educated, they will get a good job and raise their children in a good environment, not a slum. Why did Salim leave Jamal? Slumdog Millionaire study guide contains a biography of director Danny Boyle, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Proceed by removing the plastic caps from the center of the faucet. All those projects would be able to decrease slums in a long-term because of the gathering of money for supporting those projects and the way that people would take it. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Get a summary of everything Salim (Madhur Mittal (younger Salim played by Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail)) does throughout Slumdog Millionaire. When Boyle met him, he had found his Jamal. our school is a very good school, but these type of schools (the private ones) are from rich and normal people who had a normal home, the ones who live in slums are the ones who study in the public schools and we have to inprove the education in the public schools. Why did Salim fill the bathtub with money? There is no such scene in the book, although its possibility is suggested.For three years, from ages eleven through thirteen, Ram works as a daytime houseboy for a retired movie actress in her forties named Neelima Kumari. The answer is Gandhi. The tv host on this show is not fair with the school with less reputation or less money, so he give to them hard questions and he dont treat them well. Throughout, we see shots filmed at a slight angle, askant. (7) For 5,000,000 rupees: Cambridge Circus is in which U.K. city? We should make people realize that these people are also human beings and we should help them. "You really thought you could just walk in and take my prize away?" The police release him to complete the quiz show. Jamal teaches something really important, nothing it`s written and we are the ones that create our own future. Javed is shown as the local don of the slum where Salim and Jamal spend their childhood. They would have to buy or transport more things to sell so its not convenient for them. The first difference is just that the Indian slum is located in a flat surface while here most slums are in the sides of the mountains and for that people who live there have to come up and down every day just to work. How does the title and the contrast within it provide symbolic summary of the film? In the movie slumdog millionaire first the social exclusion in were a country is divided in two the first of the rich people with no problem, but doesnt accept the reality of his own country that is the misery in were people doesnt have education like is said in this movie, then we can see economic isolation on the ways of survive of the people like stealing or in the case of Jamal and salim selling fake tours to the taj mahal and finally the political exclusion, if we see the show who wants to be a millionaire the presenter is a rich and famous person and people from the slums are used like slaves in case of latika exploited by a person who wants to sell her because she were virgin (A) Surdas, (B) Tulsidas, (C) Mira Bai, or (D) Kabir. Edit, Chai is simply the Hindi word for tea. In the city, Jamal and Salim start working at a restaurant. How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film? After helping Latika to escape from Javed Khan, Salim knows that he will have to face the consequences with the gangster. Jamal's belief in his ability to find Latika, in spite of having no leads, makes his story that much more of a fairy tale. The plight of India's child beggars has been thrust into the international spotlight by Slumdog Millionaire, the British-made film tipped for Oscar glory. Salim raped Latika the night that he and Jamal rescued her from Maman. And as Salim and Jamal, some ones take the wrong way and others take the right one. Salim also thinks about the relationship that Jamal was having with Latika and reflects that with this sacrifice Latika will not have any problems in her work because of his dead boss. He fills the bathtub, because he knows that his boss will kill him, as he let go of Latika, which was one of his girls, and had practically a slave. Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. I think that the producers give this name to the movie to attract the attention of the people because is strange. The title explains Jamal's identity, and motif, in the movie. That aspect which do not seem to important actually affects the amount energy that people spent ant working and with more energy spent, more food they need, the surprising thing is that despite that the need for food is bigger here, there are less children starving (perhaps its simply that there is less people living here). (6) For 2,500,000 rupees: Who invented the revolver? Besides environmental, health and social conditions the main causes of slums in the cities are people having more children than they can afford to, then child labour which relates a lot with the first reason and if the children have to work they cant have a good quality education which makes them uneducated and when they grow up they have more children than they can afford to and the hole cycle starts over. When Beaufoy was commissioned to write the film by Film4, the script was sent out to investors including Celador Productions, which had the intellectual rights to the TV show. | Salim Malik makes the decision of filled up the bathtub with all Javed money, because he want a redemption because from the beginning of his life, he always wanted to be rich, and at the end, he want to know that he was going to die, like he always want, rich. Edit, Song and dance sequences are very common in Bollywood movies to portray feelings of love, happiness, or other emotions. QUESTION: "Is that you brother?" Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. By filling the tub all the way, you expand the gap quite a bit. Why did Salim fill the bathtub with money? I took it to mean that he was guilting her into being his girlfriend, or more likely, *ahem* "girlfriend", meaning that they did something that would legally be consensual but ethically or philosophically could have been sexual rape. They scavenge on a rubbish dump, where they are lured to a childrens home by an evil Fagin character who later tries to blind one of the boys with acid so he can earn more as a beggar. The principal similarity of them is the people. What does the title mean? Salim's death Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. First: Why or why not? A CD release came out in December. (A) Sachin Tendulkar, (B) Ricky Ponting, (C) Michael Slater, or (D) Jack Hobbs. This kind of conflicts are the cause of other like working children, malnutrition, crimes, illiterate people, unemployment, and some others. The title explains Jamal's identity, and motif, in the movie. Both of them dont fit but in the movie they do. Comparing Lima slums to Indian slums, both of them are very similar. The title in this movie give us a clear idea of what the story or movie will be about, when you read it you instantly know that it will be about a slum dog that became millionaire. This is also seen in the movie, because in the slums there isnt any consistent education and the children also grow without a knowledge base. Places where people kill for some money and crime is history of everyday. Salim Malik makes the decision of filled up the bathtub with all Javed money, because he want a redemption because from the beginning of his life, he always wanted to be rich, and at the end, he want to know that he was going to die, like he always want, rich. With that decision, he chose to work for him in shady dealings and work involved with crime. Here in lima happens something similar. In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes filling the bathtub with money, etc. Salim's death Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate.