Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal Malik: When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal Malik: If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Prem Kumar: It's getting hot in here.
Jamal Malik: Are you nervous?
Prem Kumar: [audience laughs] What? Am I nervous ? It's you who's in the hot seat, my friend!
Jamal Malik: Yes, sorry.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

[last lines]
Jamal Malik: I knew you'd be watching.
Latika: I thought we would meet only in death.
Jamal Malik: This is our destiny.
Latika: Kiss me.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Police Inspector: [whispering] Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's won 10 million.
[pause]
Police Inspector: What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
[spits out blood]
Jamal Malik: [quietly and gently] I knew the answers.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Police Inspector: Money and women - the reasons for making most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Prem Kumar: Final question for twenty million rupees, and he's smiling. I guess you know the answer.
Jamal Malik: Do you believe it, I don't!
Prem Kumar: You don't? So you take the ten million and walk?
Jamal Malik: No. I'll play.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

[after being shot]
Older Salim: God is great!

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal Malik: I'll wait for you at the train station every day at five.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal Malik: I love you.
Latika: So what?

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Youngest Salim: [giving a baby to Latika] Keep her crying and you'll earn triple.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

[after being beaten by a cop for vandalizing a car]
Jamal Malik: [to an American tourist couple] You wanted to see a bit of the real India?
Jamal Malik: [angrily to the cop] Here it is!

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Maman: Jamal, the time has come to turn professional.
Youngest Jamal: Really?
Maman: But first, let me hear that song Darshan Do Ghanshyam, my favorite bhajan.
Youngest Jamal: [sings] Darshan Do...
[stops and commands]
Youngest Jamal: Fifty rupees!
[Maman looks bewildered]


Youngest Jamal: I'm a professional now, what to do?
Maman: [laughs] Cheeky little bugger!

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Youngest Jamal: I just need Maman to like my singing, and we're in the money - big money, Latika.
Youngest Latika: And then what? Can we stop begging?
Youngest Jamal: Begging? Are you kidding? We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road. You, me and Salim, the three musketeers.
Youngest Latika: Harbour Road?

Really?
Youngest Jamal: Yes, in the moonlight. You and me. You'll dance with me won't you?
[dances]
Youngest Latika: [laughs] I hope you sing better than you dance.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Javed: My enemy's enemy is a friend.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Middle Jamal: [after being thrown off a train and seeing the Taj Mahal in the distance] Is this heaven?
Middle Salim: You're not dead, Jamal.
Middle Jamal: What is it? Some hotel?

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Older Salim: Left a message for you at work.
Jamal Malik: There was no message.
Older Salim: I definitely left a mess...
Jamal Malik: There was no message! There was no message! THERE WAS NO MESSAGE!
Jamal Malik: [Looks down at Salim starting to cry a little]
Jamal

Malik: I will never forgive you!
Older Salim: I know.

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Latika: You want to do something for me?
Jamal Malik: Anything.
Latika: Then forget me!

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!
Prem Kumar: [to the audience] Ladies and gentlemen, what a player!
[audience applauds]

Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Prem Kumar: So are you ready for the final question for 20 million rupees?
Jamal Malik: No, but maybe its written, no?
Prem Kumar: Maybe...