* Salim shooting Maman. As dickish as Salim is, Maman is such a monster that it's impossible not to cheer.
* Jamal figuring out the host's scheme to feed him a wrong answer, and turning it back on him.
* The dance sequence, which counts more for SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
** A.R.Rahman, India's leading composer, explores a great variety of music in the film, both traditional and modern, sometimes [[JustForFun/XMeetsY even a mixture]]. The result? One hell of a soundtrack. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRbPmybswHE Here is the entire dance sequence, if you don't believe it.]]
* After exhausting a ChekhovsArmory's worth of life experiences to draw his answers from, after using up all of his three lifelines, Jamal honestly doesn't know the answer to the final 20-million-rupee question and '''makes a guess'''. And you know what? He still wins!