![]() He wants to dance, and sing, and thinks that one day he will live in a mansion. It’s a terrifying betrayal, and although Jamal has already witnessed the murder of his mother-assaulted by an enraged Hindu mob, she drowns in the communal pool he’d been happily splashing in, just moments before-he is an innocent. ![]() Swarup’s new novel, Six Suspects, an Agatha Christie-like mystery, has been optioned for a movie, as well. The hardcover edition of Vikas Swarup’s book Q & A was published by Scribner/Doubleday in 2005. “He wants to take your eyes out with a spoon,” Jamal’s brother whispers to him. The protagonist, a young orphan from the slums of Mumbai named Jamal Malik, had just found out that the smooth-talking adult whom he’d considered a saint and his personal benefactor intended to permanently mutilate him in order to turn him into a more lucrative street beggar. ![]() The moment that exhausted my patience for the latest cinematic tour occurred about 20 minutes into Slumdog Millionaire, the film adaptation of Vikas Swarup’s debut novel Q&A. Yet it seems as if First World moviegoers have been spending a lot of time lately in impoverished Third World locales, with contemporary fiction like The Kite Runner and The Constant Gardener used to flesh out the details. If the stylish brush strokes of mid-20th century crime fiction found a ready home in Tinseltown, the criminal injustices of the developing world were never Hollywood’s strong suit. Slumdog Jamal Malik answers questions posed by the oily host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
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