Today in class we watched the movie Slum Dog Millionaire. It is about a boy named Jamal Malik who is a contestant on an Indian game show similar to the American game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Jamal does extremely well on the show and is accused of cheating. No one believes that he is smart enough to know all the information that he used to answer the questions correctly, so he is tortured in an attempt to force him to admit to cheating. He keeps saying that he just knew all of the answers and that he did not cheat. This is all we have seen so far of the movie. We will continue to watch the movie on Wednesday because we don't have class on Tuesdays.
Five essential facts about Mumbai are:
Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
The total area of the city is 440 sq. km or 170 sq. miles.
The population is 18 million, projected to reach 28.5 million by 2020.
Mumbai is the capital of the state of Maharashtra.
Marathi, Hindi and English are the main languages.
Dharavi is a slum and administrative ward over parts of Sion, Bandra, Kurla, and Kalina suburbs of Mumbai, India. It is sandwiched between Mahim in the west and Sion in the east
About one billion many people live in shanty towns world wide.
A Shanty town is a slum settlement (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of poor people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal and sheets of plastic. Shanty towns, which are usually built on the outskirts of cities, often do not have proper sanitation, electricity, or telephone services.
One Indian rupee is worth about 0.0255 U.S. dollars.
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor and producer.
Bollywood is the film industry of India.
Bollywood is the film industry of India.
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