Awesome / Slumdog Millionaire

• 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 Awesome Music.
  • A.R.Rahman, India's leading composer, explores a great variety of music in the film, both traditional and modern, sometimes even a mixture. The result? One hell of a soundtrack. Here is the entire dance sequence, if you don't believe it.
• After exhausting a Chekhov's Armory'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!