Slumdog Millionaire

Welcome to another "Romantic Fridays" (Or Friday of romantic comedies if you prefer), today we present a movie of, romance? Yes, comedy? Maybe not. But that doesn't mean the movie from don't being of your liking. Today I present you, Slumdog Millionaire.

Jamal Malik is being tortured in a police station in Mumbai. The 18-year-old orphan, who grew up in Mumbai’s slums and works as a tea server in a call centre, is one question away from winning the grand prize of 20 million rupees on the next episode of the Indian version of the popular quiz television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
As the inspector plays a tape of the show, a series of flashbacks reveal the life experiences that led Jamal to the correct answer to each question. Jamal and his brother Salim are young children being chased by a policeman through a slum neighborhood; when they reach their mother, she drags them into a school classroom. 
Next, the Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan visits the slum, and Jamal, after escaping an outhouse into which his brother has locked him, gets an autograph, which his brother steals and sells. Shortly thereafter, a Hindu mob attacking Muslims invades the slum, and Jamal’s mother is killed.
After Jamal and Salim take shelter in a shipping container, a young girl, Latika, arrives, and Jamal invites her in, despite Salim’s objections. Later, the gangster Maman lures the three children into his gang of child street beggars. When Salim discovers that Maman blinds boys to make them more effective beggars, he attacks Maman, and Salim, Jamal, and Latika flee, but only the boys make it onto a train.
After spending a few years on the road with Salim, Jamal decides to try to find Latika. With his brother's help he's successful, and the three escape together when Salim kills Maman. The reunion is short lived, however, after Salim threatens Jamal and steals Latika away.
Time passes, and we find Jamal working as an assistant in a telemarketing office. He decides once more to attempt to find Latika, and starts by successfully contacting his mean bro Salim. After meeting with his brother for the first time in years, he's able to deduce that slumlord Javed Khan, Salim's employer, is holding Latika.
Finally, we catch up to the present timeline, where Our Hero explains to the police that he went on the game show because he thought Latika might be watching. After this reveal, he's released and returned to the show for the final question.

As my good friend Mr. Pool said, "this is a love story", of course I have summarized it in a monumental way, the stories behind each answer is impressive, the suffering for part of the protagonist for not be able to recover his beloved is unbearable, if you have not seen yet Slumdog Millionaire this is your chance.

Winner of 8 academy awards, with Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal and Freida Pinto don’t miss seeing, Slumdog Millionaire.

By: Benjamin Mejia