Top billed cast

1. 

   Dev Patel

   Older Jamal

2. 

   Freida Pinto

   Older Latika

3. 

   Madhur Mittal

   Older Salim

4. 

   Anil Kapoor

   Prem

5. 

   Mahesh Manjrekar

   Javed

6. 

   Saurabh Shukla

   Sergeant Srinivas

7. 

   Irrfan Khan

   Police Inspector

8. 

   Ankur Vikal

   Maman

9. 

   Tanay Chheda

   Middle Jamal

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-04-02

Dev Patel is great here as "Jamal", a young man from the Mumbai slums who shot to fame by winning the first ever jackpot on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" only to be accused of cheating. It's not an unreasonable allegation - this lad comes from a background that suggests little, if any, education and yet he is answering some tough questions that, theoretically, he should not know the answers too. It's during this (actually quite brutal) interrogation, which is interspersed with flashback and with each round of the television quiz, that we discover a little of the childh...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$378,400,000.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• slum
• cheating
• suspicion
• mumbai (bombay), india
• game show
• quiz
• orphan
• duringcreditsstinger
• taj mahal, india
• defiant