The Pursuit Of Destiny English Literature Essay

Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, telling the story of Jamal Malik, a former street child, from the Juhu slum of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and was one question away from winning 20 million rupees. Thus it aroused the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials. However, before the last question, he was arrested and interrogated by the police , who suspected him of cheating because of knowing all the answers with little education.

Key words: Slumdog Millionaire, brotherhood, poverty, love, money.

Slumdog Millionaire, telling the story of Jamal Malik, a former street child, from the Juhu slum of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and was one question away from winning 20 million rupees. Thus it aroused the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials. However, before the last question, he was arrested and interrogated by the police , who suspected him of cheating because of knowing all the answers with little education. The story revolves around the interrogation of Jamal and the police. Jamal accounted that the incidents in his life which provided him with each answer. In the end, Jamal won the grand prize and met Latika at the railway station and kissed. It reveals that the lower in India. Jamal’s flashback reveals that the various injustice and difficulties the lower in India confront and the development of the society.

The British director, Danny Boyle often express tragedy by drawing support from

comedy, such as his best known film ” Trainspotting ” ,which is absurd and ridiculous but actually bleak and sad.

Jamal, Salim and Latika grew up together after they had lost their family in a religious conflict. They were born in an urban slum, where was full of garbage and flies. Garbage and slums became the symbol of India at that age. They thought of themselves as three musketeers. The story of “three musketeers’ would begin anew. But I am wrong, they’ve wandered over cities in India. The reality was cruel, no matter how hard they tried, they were still in lower class.

Destiny always play jokes on people. They were taken by Maman, the leader of a crime syndicate, who tricks and trained street kids into beggars. When Salim found that Maman was blinding children in order to make them more effective as singing beggars. Jamal and Salim ran away, and Latika didn’t. Latika became the pain of Jamal.

We live in a real world, which is full of injustice. Love is the language people all know from all over the world. Two naïve kids tried their best to live, vendor, guider, nomad. At Jamal’s insistence, they had come back to find Latika. They rescued her and Salim killed Maman. For some reason. Jamal was separated from his brother and Latika again.

While years later, Jamal was a tea server at an Indian call centre, he found his brother and his beloved girl. Salim was regretful for his past actions and only begged for forgiveness when Jamal physically attacked him. While Jamal admitted his love for her, Latika asked him to forget about her. Jamal promised to wait for her every day at 5 o’clock at the VT station. Latika attempted to run with him, but she was recaptured by Salim. Jamal loss contact with Latika when Javed moved to another house, outside of Mumbai. Knowing that Latika watched it many times, Jamal tended to make contact with her again by becoming a contestant on the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He made it to the final questiont, At last ,the love bird met in the railway station and kissed.

Life is dear, love is dearer price. Both can be given up for freedom——–almost everyone can recite Petofi’s poem. However, how many young men consider freedom is dearer than love at this age¼Ÿ

There was always a girl in Jamal’s heart from he was a little boy to a young man, her name is Lakita. They had been separated twice in their life, and Jamal tried his best to find her every time. Once he told Lakita “I know I will find you, it was our destiny”.

“I don’t know where they’ve taken her. I went to the show (Who wants to be a millionaire), because I thought she would be watching,” Jamal said th the police quietly.

No mater where they come from , no mater what regime, race, skin, class and belief, people feel love.

In this film, one of the most important figure , Salim, who had a strong enthusiasm to money. He was born in poverty. He wa.nted to get rid of it eagerly and this thirst led him to an apparently inexorable path. Finally .he realized that after what he’d done ,the most important thing was not money ,but happiness. He couldn’t go back where he was, his wish was to rescue his brother and his girl. He helped Latika and killed Javed. With his dying breath, Salim gasped that God is great.

As Jamal describes the specific incidents that led to his being able to answer each of the quiz show questions, he is simultaneously telling several stories, tales of the link between brothers, the never-ending battle with poverty, the lure and pitfalls of crime and the rapid modernization of India.

In my view ,I don’t think Jamal could live without his brother. Although Salim was bad, he wanted to protect his brother deep down the heart. He sacrificed himself. These are the theme of Slumdog Millionaire——-love, thirst and brotherhood.

Notes:

1.Specifically, in the Kumar article, Boyle referred to Deewaar (1975) by Yash Chopra and Salim Javed , Satya (1998) and Company (2002) by Ram Gopal Verma, and Black Friday (2004) by Anurag Kashyap

2. Some of the other Indian films cited by Boyle as reference points for the film include Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955), Mira Nair films such as Salaam Bombay! (1988), Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Lagaan (2001), and Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par (2007).