who wants to be millionaire

Set in 2006, the film begins in medias res in Bombay, showing a policeman torturing Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a street child in Juhu. In the first scene presents a question with four options on the screen, so that the resolution of the viewer.

 

Jamal explained that, while at least the question of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan was very easy, I knew the answers to most questions by chance, because of what had happened in his life, conveyed in a series of flashbacks in documenting the details of his childhood. The memories include scenes about how she got the autograph of Bachchan, the death of his mother during an act of violence against Muslims and the friendship he and his brother Salim with a girl named Latika (Rubina Ali). He refers to himself as Salim and Athos and Porthos, and Latika as the third of The Three Musketeers, though he does not know the name of the latter.

 

In memory of Jamal, children are eventually discovered by Maman while living in a dumpster. Maman is a gangster who pretends to have an orphanage for "collecting" street children and training them to beg. Salim is ready to be part of an operation of Maman, in which he asked to bring to Jamal to blind him (which would increase its potential as a singer beggar). Salim protects your brother.