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Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Mia Drake, Shruti Seth, Faezeh Jalali, Dev Patel, and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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Slumdog Millionaire

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  • Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!
  • Prem Kumar: [to the audience] Ladies and gentlemen, what a player!
  • [audience applauds]
  • Police Inspector: [whispering] Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's won 10 million.
  • [pause]
  • Police Inspector: What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?
  • Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
  • [spits out blood]
  • Jamal Malik: [quietly and gently] I knew the answers.
  • Prem Kumar: It's getting hot in here.
  • Jamal Malik: Are you nervous?
  • Prem Kumar: [audience laughs] What? Am I nervous ? It's you who's in the hot seat, my friend!
  • Jamal Malik: Yes, sorry.
  • Jamal Malik: When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.
  • Prem Kumar: Final question for twenty million rupees, and he's smiling. I guess you know the answer.
  • Jamal Malik: Do you believe it, I don't!
  • Prem Kumar: You don't? So you take the ten million and walk?
  • Jamal Malik: No. I'll play.
  • Police Inspector: Money and women - the reasons for making most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.
  • [last lines]
  • Jamal Malik: I knew you'd be watching.
  • Latika: I thought we would meet only in death.
  • Jamal Malik: This is our destiny.
  • Latika: Kiss me.
  • Jamal Malik: If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother.
  • Jamal Malik: I'll wait for you at the train station every day at five.
  • [after being beaten by a cop for vandalizing a car]
  • Jamal Malik: [to an American tourist couple] You wanted to see a bit of the real India?
  • Jamal Malik: [angrily to the cop] Here it is!
  • Youngest Salim: [giving a baby to Latika] Keep her crying and you'll earn triple.
  • Jamal Malik: I love you.
  • Latika: So what?
  • Javed: My enemy's enemy is a friend.
  • Youngest Jamal: I just need Maman to like my singing, and we're in the money - big money, Latika.
  • Youngest Latika: And then what? Can we stop begging?
  • Youngest Jamal: Begging? Are you kidding? We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road. You, me and Salim, the three musketeers.
  • Youngest Latika: Harbour Road? Really?
  • Youngest Jamal: Yes, in the moonlight. You and me. You'll dance with me won't you?
  • [dances]
  • Youngest Latika: [laughs] I hope you sing better than you dance.
  • Older Salim: Left a message for you at work.
  • Jamal Malik: There was no message.
  • Older Salim: I definitely left a mess...
  • Jamal Malik: There was no message! There was no message! THERE WAS NO MESSAGE!
  • Jamal Malik: [Looks down at Salim starting to cry a little]
  • Jamal Malik: I will never forgive you!
  • Older Salim: I know.
  • Middle Jamal: [after being thrown off a train and seeing the Taj Mahal in the distance] Is this heaven?
  • Middle Salim: You're not dead, Jamal.
  • Middle Jamal: What is it? Some hotel?
  • [after being shot]
  • Older Salim: God is great!
  • Prem Kumar: So are you ready for the final question for 20 million rupees?
  • Jamal Malik: No, but maybe its written, no?
  • Prem Kumar: Maybe...
  • Prem Kumar: [starting lines] So, Jamal, tell me something about yourself.
  • Jamal Malik: I work in a call centre in Juhu.
  • Prem Kumar: Phone basher! And what type of call center would that be?
  • Jamal Malik: XL5 mobile phones.
  • Prem Kumar: Ohh... so you're the one who calls me up every single day of my life with special offers?
  • Jamal Malik: Actually I'm an assistant.
  • Prem Kumar: An assistant phone basher? And what does an assistant phone basher do exactly?
  • Jamal Malik: I get tea for people and...
  • Prem Kumar: Chaiwalah! Well ladies and gentlemen, Jamal Malik, garma garam chai dene walah from Mumbai, lets play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!
  • Latika: You want to do something for me?
  • Jamal Malik: Anything.
  • Latika: Then forget me!
  • Maman: Jamal, the time has come to turn professional.
  • Youngest Jamal: Really?
  • Maman: But first, let me hear that song Darshan Do Ghanshyam, my favorite bhajan.
  • Youngest Jamal: [sings] Darshan Do...
  • [stops and commands]
  • Youngest Jamal: Fifty rupees!
  • [Maman looks bewildered]
  • Youngest Jamal: I'm a professional now, what to do?
  • Maman: [laughs] Cheeky little bugger!
  • Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!
  • Prem Kumar: [to the audience] Ladies and gentlemen, what a player!
  • [audience applauds]
  • [after he admitted to his show's director that he tried to cheat out Jamal with a wrong answer on a question, after getting Jamal arrested]
  • Prem Kumar: What does it matter? It's my show. It's... MY FUCKING SHOW!
  • Middle Jamal: The guide book was written by a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing Indian beggars!
  • Police Inspector: Well, well. The slumdog barks.
  • Middle Salim: Shut up! The man with the Colt .45 says shut up!
  • [Salim and Jamal are sitting on the edge of an under construction apartment building]
  • Older Salim: That... used to be our slum. Can you believe that, huh?
  • [pointing at something]
  • Older Salim: We used to live right there, man. Now, it's all business. India is at the center of the world now, bhai. And I... I am at the center... of the center. This is all Javed bhai's.
  • Jamal Malik: Javed Khan... the gangster from our slum? You work for him?
  • Older Salim: Come on, who else do you think would save us from Maman's guys, huh?
  • Jamal Malik: What do you do for him?
  • Older Salim: Anything he asks.
  • [pause in conversation, as Salim's phone rings]
  • Older Salim: He's coming. You need to go now. Take my card.
  • Jamal Malik: What for?
  • Older Salim: You think I'm gonna let you out of my sight again, huh? You stay with me now, younger brother. Now go. My place.
  • Jamal Malik: Salim, where is Latika?
  • Older Salim: Still...? She's gone, brother. Long gone. Now go. Go to my place.
  • Shruti Seth: Baali, keep up! The chaiwalah knows more than you.
  • Prem Kumar: The chaiwalah has done it again!
  • Youngest Jamal: Since when is there a time limit on a crap?
  • Jamal Malik: Why does everyone love this program?
  • Latika: It's a chance to escape, isn't it? Walk into another life.
  • Police Inspector: You puzzle me, slumdog, admitting murder to avoid the charge of fraud... is not exactly clever thinking.
  • Prem Kumar: Guy from the slums... becomes a millionaire overnight. Do you know who's the only other person who's done that? Me. I know what it feels like. I know what you've been through.
  • Prem Kumar: I just get some kind of karmic feeling you're going to win this.
  • Prem Kumar: From rags to raja. It's your destiny.

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