INSPECTOR: JAMAL: Because I am a slum dog, chai- wallah, I am a liar, right? INSPECTOR: Most of you are. But you are not a liar, Mister Malik, that is JAMAL: SALIM: That guy. He will never give up. Never. Crazy chutiyé. SALIM: SALIM: Just drive. There wo

174. PREM:

What do you think? Decision time. For ten million rupees. B Ricky Ponting or D Jack Hobbs. 295 175. PREM: Not B Ricky Ponting? The Australian Great cricketer? 297

176. PREM:

You know? 299 177. PREM: So it could be B, Ricky Ponting? 300

178. JAMAL:

Or D. Jack Hobbs. Final Answer. D. 301

179. PREM: I cannot believe what I am seeing here, tonight, Ladies and

Gentlemen. 307

180. JAMAL:

No. But , maybe it is written. 309

181. PREM: Maybe.

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182. PREM:

Join us tomorrow night to see if Jamal Malik has made the biggest mistake of his life or has just won the biggest prize in the history of Indian television. Same place, same time. You wouldn’t dare miss it. Goodnight 312

183. DIRECTOR:

What’s going on? 314

184. PREM: He’s a cheat.

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185. DIRECTOR:

How do you know he’s cheating? 316

186. PREM: Even when I fed him the wrong answer the little shit got it right.

317 187. DIRECTOR: You gave him an answer? 318

188. PREM:

Not exactly. But, what is the matter? It’s my show. It’s my fucking show. 319

189. INSPECTOR:

It is a bizarrely plausible. And yet. 320 190. JAMAL: Because I am a slum dog, chai- wallah, I am a liar, right? 321

191. INSPECTOR: Most of you are. But you are not a liar, Mister Malik, that is

for sure. You are too truthful. We’re done. 322 Universitas Sumatera Utara

192. JAMAL:

I don’t know where they had taken her. Latika. I went to the show because I thought she will be watching. 323

193. SALIM: That guy. He will never give up. Never. Crazy chutiyé.

324

194. SALIM:

Ja. Go. 325

195. SALIM: Just drive. There won’t be another chance.

326

196. LATIKA:

He will kill you. 327

197. LATIKA: Salim, I can’t.

329

198. SALIM: You have to. For God’s sake, hold on to it.

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199. SRINIVAS:

You’ll back on the show. 333

200. PREM: I can safely say that tonight is the biggest night of both of our lives.

Jamal Malik, the Call Centre worker from Mumbai has already won ten million rupees. Tonight, he can walk away with that in his pocket or make the biggest gamble in television history and go for the final question and a staggering twenty million rupees 335 201. PREM: Big reader, are you Jamal? 338

202. JAMAL:

I can read. 339

203. PREM: The final question, for twenty million rupees and he’s smiling. I