SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Galas

Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik’s life. A penniless, 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he’s one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? But when the show breaks for the night, he is suddenly arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could on uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible post, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gongs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: What is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day downs and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and 60 million viewers ore about to find out.