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Slumdog Millionaire is one those few films that was based on Indian set up and won 8 Oscars. This made quite a stir in the film industry in India as well as in places outside India. The film remained in the headlines of most of the reputed news dailies for quite sometime.

The film describes the poverty, inequity and corruption which are vividly evident in India in a visible manner. The film Slumdog Millionaire is regarded as the symbol of hope for the people living below poverty line in most of the third world and so called developing countries. The film’s popularity made the rest of the world apprehend the types of problems India is facing and numerous hardships borne by the poor Indian people, living in the cities. Slumdog Millionaire represents the modern aspiring India, facing the full fury of the global economic spin. It’s an explosion of color and light with the darkness ever ready to invade. This film reveals the shocking reality of dreadful brutality, a romance which is disturbed by sexual abuse, a desire of amassing wealth that is due to the crushing poverty.

The plot of the Slumdog Millionaire revolves around the life of an illiterate kid called Jamal, his brother and his girl friend Latika from the slum areas of Mumbai and he goes on to win the Kaun Benega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The road to the victory was not a bed of roses. He had to go through a lot of hardships. Most interesting part of the film is that the story telling process follows a flashback format. The answers of the questions asked to him at the game show came out of bizarre incidents in from his own life.

During the game he was captured by the police after being dubbed as a fraud. Even after repeated efforts the police officer failed get out what he was looking for, so he was sent back to the show to answer the last question and win the jackpot.

Both the director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy brought out the maximum drama based on the book by Vikas Swarup called Q & A.