# Slumdog Millionaire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117 "2008-12-01T01:25:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117/201 "2009-03-30T16:50:27Z")

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Another thing. The 20 million rupee prize converts to about $400,000, which doesn’t sound like a lot. But how far would that go in India?

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**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117/202 "2009-03-30T20:46:16Z")

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Depends on where you live. In Bombay, you could get a nice flat in the suburbs, especially the exurbs, but not in South Bombay or rich pockets of the suburbs. After that, assuming a comfortable but not lavish upper-middle-class lifestyle i.e. a single car, no annual holidays abroad…etc, you could live out 20-25 years.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117/203 "2009-03-30T21:08:09Z")

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Minus of course about Rs. 10,000 to hire some other slumdogs to kick the gameshow host’s ass.

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**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117/204 "2009-03-31T19:18:49Z")

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Rs. 10,000? In Bombay you can get a murder done for less! (According to newspaper reports–I have no personal knowledge etc.)

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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slumdog-millionaire/475117/205 "2009-04-01T10:32:24Z")

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> [@Equipoise](#):
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> There’s a fundamental difference between love stories in Bollywood movies and love stories in Hollywood movies.

Well, yeah the characters in low-budget mass produced Bollywood films are sometimes like that. But there are plenty of Bollywood films that have deeply emotional love stories. I still cry my eyes out every time I watch **Devdas** , which is drippy and sentimental in true Bollywood fashion but manages to be a thousand times the better movie.

[QUOTE=Soapbox Monkey]  
quixotic78, I’m guessing you’ve never read Romeo and Juliet?  
[/QUOTE]

The major theme in Romeo and Juliet is not “this is the greatest love ever,” but rather “infatuated teenagers do dumb shit.”

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