This Best Picture winner about a journey from poverty to miraculous wealth was Film Streams’ first smash hit. 

Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just 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, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating — how, after all, could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder: What is a young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million other viewers are about to find out.