Episode 47 - Slumdog Millionaire

The 2008 Best Picture winner, "Slumdog Millionaire," is a fake
episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” set in India with an
evil version of Regis Philbin. Despite the fact that the
questions they ask are extremely easy, Evil Reege suspects the
winning contestant of cheating and turns him over to corrupt cops
who attempt to torture a confession out of him. This is the
actual plot of this movie.


Dev Patel plays 18-year-old Jamal Malik, a clean-cut charismatic
young man who speaks both Hindi and the Queen’s English
perfectly, but we’re supposed to believe that he came from the
deepest depths of poverty and spent his youth as an uneducated,
parentless street urchin. We’d sooner believe Sir Benedict
Cumberbatch was from the slums.


Model-turned-actress Freida Pinto plays Latika, Jamal’s supposed
lifelong soulmate even though they never spent more than a day
together between age 8 and 18 and hardly knew each other.


Anil Kapoor plays Prem Kumar (aka Evil Regis), a psychopathic
game show host who vehemently hates Jamal for successfully
answering a few simple quiz questions.


Irrfan Khan plays a police inspector who initially tortures and
mistrusts Jamal until he decides that Jamal is telling the truth
and transforms into a really nice dude.


Join us as we talk about the worst places to put chili powder and
how the invention of the orphan blinder revolutionized the
begging industry.


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