slumdog

• I have to say, though, that if I were protesting about the film, as certain groups in India are, it would not be about pictures of poverty or the word slumdog but about the images of torture in a Bombay police station, where Jamal is badly beaten up and given vicious electric shocks just because he knows things above his notional class. —  NAACHGAANA
• Calling him a "slumdog," the authorities arrest Jamal for cheating -- how else would a poor boy from the slums be able to answer the game show's questions? —  Top Stories - Google News
• There is a moment in the film when Anil Kapoor (who plays a game show host in the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?") suggests an answer to the "slumdog", in the washroom - a typically Indian way of cheating, perhaps - but the chap in the hot seat is not fooled. —  Top Stories - Google News
• I saw Patel in slumdog, and he captured the film wonderfully. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
• The story of a street urchin ( "slumdog") who somehow winds up on the Indian edition of —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

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