Review : Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

The international bestseller, written by Vikas Swarup,“Slumdog Millionaire“ is about the life of a young indian orphan man called Ram Mohammed Thomas. Because of the fact that he is an orphan, he was not at school, so he is not very educated.

He decides to participate on a TV show called “ Who Will Win A Billion? “. Of course nobody could imagine that he will win, because he is just a servant in a bar. But he does, he wins one billion rupees ( currency of India)!

The next day the police arrests him, because they are sure that he cheated on the show. At the police station they torture him, because Ram does not admit how he cheated on the game. Suddenly a young indian woman appears and says that she is Rams lawyer and that the police has no rights to put him into jail. She takes him to her house and wants him to explain how he won on the TV show.

Ram tells her that ist was luck that he won. Every question that they asked him on the show he knowed only because of his huge life experiences. The whole night he talkes about his life and how the questions are connected with his life, to proof that he is inguilty. Will he have to go to prison? And who is the mythical lawyer in fact? You will get to know if you read this amazing book ;)

Every chapture in the story is about one question in the show. At the end of the book you expirienced the life of an orphan boy, who managed his life without any help, just himself and his problems he had to face to become lucky. None of us could imagine to expirience something like that!

The book shows you a modern India and it also contains interessting historical facts.

In a nutshell the story is about friendship, love, luck, destiny and aims. It shows you that every wish can come true, you only have to believe in it and hold on your dreams.

I liked the book veeeeery much, because it is such a rousing story!

I think it is also interessting to watch the film “Slumdog Millionaire” made by Danny Boyle.

I recommend this book for teenagers up to15 years old, because the story contains some cruel and violent moments.

Vikas Swarup was born 1963 in Allahabad (India). Apart from being author of the bestsellers “ Slumdog Millionaire” and “ Q and A” he is an indian diplomat.