Slumdog Millionaire Sociology

The film “Slumdog Millionaire” tells the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year old orphan form the slums in Mumbai, who rises from the slums to wealth overnight on India’s version of the television show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Jamal is uneducated and poor, for this reason he is arrested and accused of cheating immediately after the show. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells his life story of growing up in the slums in Mumbai with his brother Salim and we learn about his vicious encounters with local gangs. With each chapter of his life story, Jamal reveals how he knew the answer to each and every question he was asked in the show. Although many people may argue that “Slumdog Millionaire” does not accurately depict poverty and slums in India, overall, the film manages to show the reality of life for many children in

These people living in the slums have limited access to electricity, clean water, food, and educational opportunities; Salim and Jamal are young thieves after their mother dies and they attempt to survive on the streets of Mumbai in such conditions. In general, Jamal and Salim are two of seven million children under the age of 14 who are growing up in this extreme poverty and inferior living conditions. For these reasons, children are forced to search for unsafe jobs like Salim and Jamal are when they began working as beggars for a gangster who abuse of these children, and takes out their eyes so that they’ll make more money. Additionally, throughout the film we see that Americans are portrayed morally superior. For example, when an American couple sees a policeman hitting Jamal, they immediately intervene and Jamal mumbles that if they wanted to see the true India, then they just had. Because the Americans felt bad for Jamal, they felt the need to pay them to compensate their moral obligation to help the children who live in these slums, by simply offering their