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Slumdog Millionaire – Story theme

Slumdog millionaire is a story about an Indian teen boy Jamal Malik who was impoverished but fortunately was the contestant of a famous show “Who wants to be a millionaire – Hindi version”, a boy without any intention of winning the money but only hope of finding his lost love. The main theme in this movie is hope and destiny.

Jamal Malik was arrested after the show as he was not supposed to answer all the questions correctly as he was after all only a slumdog. Questions even professors and doctors cannot answer and cannot pass through a certain level of difficulty, but instead of all this Jamal can answer all the questions. When interrogated by the police officer, he explained how he knew all the answers through his experiences in each of his life phase, but he could not even answer a simple question asked by the police.

He explained that every question reminded him of every stage of his tough childhood with his brother, Salim and his friend, Latika. For every question reminded him of how he lived through the past and fighting to survive in the harsh world. Along the way he lost Latika but he promised to himself that he would find her again someday in the future. In the hope of finding Latika, Jamal who was only a tea boy had an initiative of joining the show as he knew that Latika was very fond of the show. In the end, He became the contestant, won 20 million rupees and found his lost love.

The theme in the story is clear, hope that was expressed by the characters with every single level of emotions. Hope of finding his love, hope of these kids surviving by themselves in India as they are just slumdogs. They possess a living that none of the Western people can imagine of doing so. But in spite of only hope, the movie is also about destiny. Destiny of how people who have no hope or any life prospects in their entire life can change within a night. Love is also a part of the story. This movie not only has a wonderful story, the theme also taught us about life.