What's the Difference between Q & A the Book and Slumdog Millionaire the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Ram Mohammed Thomas.
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Jamal Malik
Portrayed by: Dev Patel
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Nita
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Latika
Portrayed by: Freida Pinto
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Slumdog Millionaire Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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The main character meets his love when he is a teenager, and she is a prostitute. |
They meet as young children. |
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The main character is relating the events that led to him knowing the answers to his lawyer. |
He is telling it to a cop.
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The main character hopes to win money on the show so he can pay to have his girlfriend released from her pimp. |
He goes on the show so he can make contact with Latika because he knows she watches it daily. |
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Salim is a Bollywood actor. |
He is a gangster and gets killed in the end.
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Ram calls an English professor that he befriended for his phone a friend and got the answer to a question about Shakespeare. |
Jamal knows the answer but uses his phone call to call Salim. It is the only phone number he knows. |
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Salim and Ram are both orphans who are not related. |
Jamal and Salim are brothers.
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Ram works for a Bollywood actress. |
He works in a Call Center. |
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The host of the show is an actor that Ram knew, and who abused his girlfriend. He wanted revenge. |
The host is an actor, but he has no previous relationship to Jamal.
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Ram goes on a fictional game show called, "Who Will Win A Billion?" |
It is the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?" |
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Ram is older than Salim. |
Salim is older than Jamal.
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In the book, Ram Mohammed Thomas is an orphan and is collected in a church. And , a monk gaves his name Ram Mohammed Thomas, what influences the name of three religion. |
In the movie, Jamal Malik is brother with Salim, and his mother is killed during a war of Bombay riots. |