The master of Ceremony compares Jamal’s condition especially before- and-after joining the quiz in front of the audience. There is a difference between a
tea-maker and a millionaire. From the evidences above it can be concluded that the existence of the
lower society sometimes can not be accepted in all of part of the society.
4.1.2 Children Trafficking
Children trafficking in this film are described through the picture of children living in the slum area, who are exploited by becoming beggar and working in
prostitution area. In this case, the children have to work under the pressure of the local gangster. The following discussion explaining about the children’s activity
in which it reflects the children trafficking. The activity of forcing the children by becoming beggar, the gangster ask
the children to beg for money to everyone they meet in the road. The gangsters also give a duty for Salim to coordinate the children to work. The most sadistic
way to traffics children is by working use baby. It is like statement in the following quotation:
Salim : Here For you.
Youll earn double. Im doing you a favor, Latika. Salim holds the baby up. Latika grabs the baby with
a cry just as Salim releases it from his hands. Salim pinches the baby.
00:27:11
Salim : Triple if its baby crying. 00:28:10
Salim ask Latika to use the baby to get more money. Such as, let the baby cries because it will take people’s attention, so that they will give them more
money. Obviously, in the elementary school year when they must study at school and play with another child, they are forced to work to get money for another
person. The most extreme way to work is by using baby, a baby who has to get full attention from its parents. In that situation, it was used to produces more
money for another. Even they must let the baby crying to get more money from another.
Salim also gives an instruction to the other children to work and get much money soon at that time. After that the children are scattered to the cars trapped at
the lights, tapping plaintively on the windows and making the universal begging gesture. Salims influences by the local gangster to coordinating all of slums
children to produce money for Maman. He asks all of children have to obey all of his command. As the dialogue below:
Salim : think you’re here for a picnic?
What do you think this is holiday? 00:27:25
Come on Get to work Go 00:28:15
The dialogue above happened when Salim instructs all of the children to work in the morning. After giving a command, he asks all of the children to run
into the road and become beggars at that time. Another sadist way in trafficking children is by making one of the normal
children blind. The processes of making a normal boy to blind is very extreme. The gangster give anesthesia for the child and then they lays the boy on the table
and the takes hold of the boy’s eyelid and pulls it open. The gangsters continuous the activity by bringing the spoon closes on the child’s eyes and then they are
wiping the spoon on a blood-soaked rag. The gangsters believe that by using a blind boy, they will get more money. It is due to the physical condition of the boy
which creates people’s pity and sympathy as well. The other situation is also described when Latika have to study dance. The
gangster makes Latika a dancer in a prostitution area in India. There is a description how they traffic a girl in the prostitution world in their illegal way. In
the elementary school, she has to be a dancer to entertain the guests who come to that prostitution area. She has to produce money for the local gang by becoming a
dancer there. In her young age, she has to lose her study and play time with another child, she has to work underpreassure of the local gangs. In her age, she
might still want to play and study likes another child in the school. From the description of the example how to the gangster traffic children,
we can get information that they get more money by doing exploitation of children in the society.
4.1.3 Violence in the Society
