Slumdog Millionaire Plot Analysis

Register to read the introduction… He uses a computer to find Salim’s phone number. Salim is delighted to see his brother again, but Jamal is shocked to learn that Salim is working for Javed, and even more shocked to find that Latika is with Javed too. She is clearly unhappy but is too frightened of Javed to leave him.

When Latika does try to join Jamal, she is followed and forcibly taken back by Salim and Javed’s other thugs. Finding Javed’s house empty, Jamal is in despair. He decides to go on the TV game show in the hope that Latika will be watching it.

Listening to Jamal’s story, the Inspector comes to believe that this ‘slumdog’ is telling the truth. Finally convinced, the Inspector releases him to go back onto the show, to face the final question.

The story of Jamal’s dream run on the show and his subsequent arrest has turned him overnight into a media sensation. When Salim and Latika see Jamal on the news, Salim gives Latika his car keys so she can escape Javed. While Latika drives across the city towards the studio, he locks himself in the bathroom with money and his gun.

As Jamal returns to the studio for the final question, Latika is caught up in Mumbai’s gridlocked