Q and A: Slumdog Millionaire (Paperback)

The tale of part fantasy, part curiosity and part reality. A tale of multiple layers unfolding with a new surprise element as and when Ram Mohammad Thomas, a boy with a humble, in fact poor or no background ends up winning the nation’s most prestigious quiz show Who Will Win a Billion? Well, the curiosity part does not come in his winning but in his landing up in jail as a consequence of his win. It is of course a matter of high doubt as to how an illiterate fellow living in slum quarters can find answers to all twelve questions posed to him in the quiz. From here, the plot unfolds as Ram Mohammad Thomas revisits his past and gives an account of his life through the tides of times. Ram’s tale is bound to keep any individual gripped to his tale as he moves from being an orphan to being moved in a brothel. From being alongside gangsters to finding himself serving a Bollywood star. The story is a complex drama of an individual who has learnt much in life just by being a perceptive observer and a keen listener.

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