Motivation In Slumdog Millionaire

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The film Slumdog Millionaire was released in year 2008. It was directed by Danny Boyle who is a British Director and achieved eight Oscar awards for quality of performance in the arenas like cinematography, sound mixing, direction, film editing, etc. This movie is adopted from a novel “Q & A” which is written by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The movie is picturized in slum part of Mumbai, Indian background. The movie is a package of motivation, love, tragedy, action, eagerness and hate.
The movie story turns around an uneducated eighteen years old Muslim orphan boy named Jamal Malik and his elder brother Salim Malik from the slums of Mumbai. The movie shows the journey of Jamal from poor to get rich. In this movie, Jamal has no schooling, no family and no any support to survive. His entire lifetime he is
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As a young adult he arises to work as a tea delivery boy in a call centre and selected simple and honest path for earning. Jamal has not chosen other options like his brother to get out of poverty. The movie shows how two brothers with a parallel background and rearing choose two diverse paths in their lives. Jamal completed working in a call centre whereas Salim driven for a famous gangster in Mumbai. Even though the adoptions of wrong path, ended up hurt people and were misled by his wish to have a better life, Salim upholds love and loyalty towards his brother Jamal. Their two dissimilar paths lead to two contrary outcomes, Jamal ends up winning the television game show “Who wants to be Millionaire” whereas Salim dies. Salim has made all the depraved choices and became a bad person. At the end of the movie, Salim realized that he earned money by illegal way which could not make him happy so he decided to recompense for his mistake by surrendering himself to help Latika escape from Javed and he kills himself in a tub which is full of

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