History Film / SlumdogMillionaire

Even though critically acclaimed internationally, over the next few years the movie attained widespread {{Hatedom}} and SnarkBait status in India, with numerous {{Take That}}s from other Indian movies; mostly because Danny Boyle managed to hit just about every single Bollywood cliche in it, while turning all the "Violent Mumbai" negative stereotypes UpToEleven to create the film's dark and cynical atmosphere (not to mention starring a British actor in the lead role).

* SmarmyHost: The jerkass Millionaire host who tries to make Jamal loose.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-flipped. Jamal is probably one of the sweetest, kindest, and most honest and trusting people you could ever have the fortune to meet. Nevertheless, if you ever insult or harm Latika, he ''will'' do his level best to kick your ass.

* NobodyPoops: Subverted. Specifically, Salim locks Jamal in an outhouse above a river as revenge for losing him a few bucks, just when a movie star shows up. Jamal is forced to jump into crap higher than his head to get out.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When the police think Jamal cheated, they use ElectricTorture on him to make him confess. Particularly disturbing is that they're so casual about it, you get the impression they do this all the time.
** They're Mumbai Police. They DO do this all the time. But sorta, kinda, understandable as they get paid peanuts to put their lives on the line against ruthless gangsters who usually have political connections.
* JeopardyIntelligenceTest: And how.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler:''D. [[MemeticMutation It is written ]].''

* BellyDancer: Latika wears a [[MindYourMidriff midriff-revealing outfit]] and a lot of {{Jewelry}} when she is [[HighClassCallgirl rented]] for the first time when Jamal finds her after being separated from her.

* BellyDancer: Latika wears a midriff-revealing outfit and a lot of {{Jewelry}} before she is [[HighClassGirl rented]] for the first time.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler:''D. [[MemeticMutation It is written ]].'']]
* BellyDancer: Latika wears a {{Midriff Barren Outfit}} and a lot of {{Jewelry}} before she is [[HighClassGirl rented]] for the first time.

* EarnYourHappyEnding

--> '''[[spoiler:Salim Malik]]:''' God is great.

* IRememberBecause: Essentially the entire plot of the movie.

* InMysteriousWays

* EntertaininglyWrong: When Salim and Jamal are living near the Taj Mahal, the latter is at one point mistaken for a tour guide by a couple of German tourists. Jamal decides to roll with it when he learns that there are pretty good money in it. While Jamal has overheard bit and pieces of the historical factoids the professional tour guides tell about Taj Mahal on a regular basis, he cannot remember all of it, so he just fills out the missing pieces with ideas and concepts that are familiar to him, resulting in him grandstandingly claiming to the tourists that the Taj Mahal is in fact five star hotel complete with elevators and a swimming pool and that Empress Mumtaz Mahal died in a road traffic accident. When the tourists points that there are several discrepancies between Jamal's story and their guidebook, Jamal quickly waves it off by claiming that their book was written by "a bunch of lazy, good-for-nothing, Indian beggars."

* CondensationClue: The show host writes the letter B on the steamy bathroom mirror for Jamal to notice. It was supposed to be answer for the next show question but as it turns out - the clue was wrong. Good thing Jamal didn't fall for it.

* CreativeClosingCredits: Specifically, a Bollywood dance sequence. "Jai-ho!"
* DancePartyEnding

** Note to mention the {{Police|Brutality}} [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] Jamal...because he allegedly [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cheated]] at WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire. SeriousBusiness indeed.

* InformedFlaw: Jamal's supposed lack of education and knowledge as a slumdog is lampshaded so many times, despite all evidence to the contrary it goes beyond BookDumb into this. (heck, with their smarts the brothers could get jobs working in the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} equivalent of a spy film. Or an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim)
** Knowledge and intelligence are two different things. That's likely the ''point''. And remember, no one expects much from a "slumdog". Neither brother is dumb, but everyone thinks they are unless they prove otherwise.

* SmarmyHost

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Dev Patel as Jamal tries an Indian accent (Dev Patel is ethnically Indian but English) but often his English accent comes through.

* FanDisservice: Jamal gets a ShirtlessScene...Hanging upside down and being tortured for cheating (when he's not).

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Jamal searches the name "Latika" in the phone listings and gets over 26 000 results. Even when he searches "Salim K Malik" he gets about ten results.

* AloofBigBrother: Salim

* BerserkButton: Jamal is probably one of the sweetest, kindest, and most honest and trusting people you could ever have the fortune to meet. Nevertheless, if you ever insult or harm Latika, he ''will'' do his level best to kick your ass.

* StarCrossedLovers: Jamal and Latika

** And Jerkass.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Jamal, Salim, and Latika

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Numerous times it's mentioned that if Jamal gets a question wrong, he will lose everything. However ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'' (including its foreign spin-offs) always has two milestone questions (the fifth and tenth) which guarantee some prize money even if the contestant gets a question wrong afterwards.
** The Phone A Friend is only ever done to a landline number, to prevent connection difficulties.