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Author: Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-11-18
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1439136653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Author: Paul Shipton
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905775910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Slumdog Millionaire' is the story of a young boy from the streets of Mumbai who wins the popular quiz show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'. This book also contains a fact file section which provides information on making the story into a film, the country of India and the lives of street children.
Author: Ajay Gehlawat
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1783083255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology’s multiple perspectives.
Author: Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1471113183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As heard on BBC Woman's Hour From the author of the book behind the blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, a brilliant novel about life changing in an instant. In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if, out of the blue, a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the 'textbook of life'. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi, by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India's richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna's life, one that will test her character, her courage and her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars, and the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game, one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire, one of the biggest films of the decade, comes this compelling, suspenseful tale of the power of dreams, the lure of money and the universal need to know who we are. Praise forThe Accidental Apprentice: 'It's easy to forget that before it was retitled for Hollywood, Slumdog Millionairewas a novel called Q&A,which makes its author, Vikas Swarup, probably the most successful Indian author you've never heard of…. Gripping stuff… Perhaps The Accidental Apprenticeis awaiting its Danny Boyle'The Times Praise for Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire 'A colourful portrait of Indian society is painted with remarkable lightness and wit' Sunday Telegraph 'Absorbing and richly entertaining reading' The Times
Author: Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1317438183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Only virtuous humans are supposed to move in time to meet their happy destiny or karma. The tale of Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire is such a case of serendipitous mobility towards riches and love – a ‘journey’ in which good heroes and urban communities respecting solidarity are successfully modernised. Unsurprisingly, the film became tangled in many controversies around India’s destiny in the world: the film inserted Mumbai into various financial, political and artistic scenes, increased tourism in its filmed slums, and brought about charity projects in which celebrities and tourist businesses were involved. Slumdog Millionaire served as a global example of a ‘developing country’s’ uneven but unique modernisation. This book examines such mobilities of ideas, art, tourism and activism together. In doing so, it reveals the significance of Mumbai as a post-colonial city in discussions of modernity – a form of mobile adaptation to new world realities. Tzanelli examines the various agents involved in controversies through multiple virtual and real journeys to India’s colonial history and present social complexity, with a view to actualise a post-colonial future, a ‘destiny’ as the country’s serendipitous destination. Addressed to interdisciplinary audiences, the book will be a useful text for students and scholars of globalisation, mobility, tourism, media and social movement theory.
Author: John Corbett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-01-14
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0521741882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intercultural Language Activities contains fourteen chapters covering topics including childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners mediate in situations of cultural misunderstanding and start web-based intercultural exchanges. It examines interview techniques, how people present themselves, and ways to interpret cultural symbols and characteristics, such as those found in postcards, advertisements and online newspapers. In engaging with these topics, learners become intercultural explorers and raise their level of communicative competence.
Author: Brent Dunham
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781604738353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater and television director helped the British film industry pull itself out of a decades-long slump. With Trainspotting, he proved British films could be more than stuffy, period dramas; they could be vivacious and thrilling with dynamic characters and an infectious soundtrack. This collection of interviews traces Boyle’s relatively short fifteen-year film career, from his outstanding low-budget debut Shallow Grave, to his Hollywood studio films, his brief return to television, and his decade-in-the-making renaissance. Taken from a variety of sources including academic journals, mainstream newspapers, and independent bloggers, Danny Boyle: Interviews is one of the first books available on this emerging director. As an interviewee, Boyle displays an engaging honesty and openness. He talks about his films 28 Days Later, Millions, and others. His success proves that classical storytelling artists still resonate with audiences.
Author: Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Bazarforlag AS
Published: 2012-02-06
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 8280874844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Den kritikerroste boken bak Danny Boyles film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, som vant 8 Oscarstatuetter. Den fattige, foreldreløse gutten uten skolegang Ram Mohammad Thomas vinner den indiske versjonen av «Vil du bli millionær?» Men produsenten av programmet er ikke villig til å betale premien. Derfor sørger han for å få ham arrestert og torturert for å innrømme juks. Men Ram Mohammad Thomas har ikke jukset. Mens han gjennomgår TV-opptakene, tar han oss med på en fantastisk reise gjennom et omskiftelig liv. Med Gutten som hadde svar på alt, også kjent som Slumdog millionaire, har den indiske diplomaten Vikas Swarup fått et stort publikum verden over.
Author: Simon Beaufoy
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Published: 2008-12-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557048363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik’s life. A penniless, eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he’s one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother, Salim, survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: What is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. . .
