(The official screenplay book tie-in to the acclaimed new film from director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Oscar(r)-nominated screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty).

Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life.

A penniless, eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother, Salim, survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost.

Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: What is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?

When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out....

The Newmarket Shooting Script(r) book includes:
* foreword by screenwriter Simon Beaufoy
* introduction by and exclusive Q&A with director Danny Boyle
* the complete screenplay
* color photo section
* complete cast and crew credits

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