The movie Slumdog Millionaire It takes place on Mumbai, India, where eighteen year old Jamal Salik is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Jamal is one question away from winning the top prize of the show, but the host can’t understand how an uneducated young boy from a slum knows the answers to the difficult questions in the show, so he has Jamal arrested and interrogated after being convinced that he’s cheating. The rest of the movie employs flashbacks to narrate the turbulent story of Jamal, his brother Salim, and Latika (a girl from their slum). Although Jamal’s life wasn’t easy, his life experiences gave him the knowledge to answer the tough questions on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?