What's the Difference between Q & A the Book and Slumdog Millionaire the Movie?
In the Book |
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
In the Book |
In the Movie |
The main character meets his love when he is a teenager, and she is a prostitute. |
They meet as young children. |
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. |
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. |