Slumdog Millionaire Quotes

Middle Salim : Shut up! The man with the Colt 45 says shut up!

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Jamal Malik : I knew you'd be watching.
Latika : I thought we would meet only in death.
Jamal Malik : This is our destiny.
Latika : Kiss me.

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Maman : Jamal, time has come to turn professional.
Youngest Jamal : Really?
Maman : But first, let me hear that song Darshan Do Ghanshyam, my favorite bhajan.
Youngest Jamal : [ sings ] Darshan Do [ stops and commands ]
Youngest Jamal : Fifty rupees!
Maman : [ bewildered ]
Youngest Jamal : I'm a professional now, what to do?
Maman : [ laughs ] Cheeky little bugger!

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Shruti Seth : Baali, keep up! The chaiwalah knows more than you.

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Prem Kumar : The chaiwalah has done it again!

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Prem Kumar : Its getting hot in here.
Jamal Malik : Are you nervous?
Prem Kumar : [ audience laughs ] What? Am I nervous ? Its you whos in the hot seat, my friend!
Jamal Malik : Yes, sorry.

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Prem Kumar : A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!
Prem Kumar : Ladies and gentlemen, what a player! [ audience applauds ]

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Prem Kumar : So are you ready for the final question for 20 million rupees?
Jamal Malik : No, but maybe its written, no?
Prem Kumar : Maybe...

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Prem Kumar : Final question for twenty million rupees, and he's smiling. I guess you know the answer.
Jamal Malik : Do you believe it, I don't!
Prem Kumar : You don't? So you take the ten million and walk?
Jamal Malik : No. I'll play.

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Middle Jamal : [ seeing the Taj Mahal ] Is this heaven?
Middle Salim : You're not dead Jamal.
Middle Jamal : What is it? Some hotel?

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Prem Kumar : [ starting lines ] So Jamal, tell me something about yourself.
Jamal Malik : I work in a call centre in Juhu.
Prem Kumar : Phone basher! And what type of call centre would that be?
Jamal Malik : XL5 mobile phones.
Prem Kumar : Ohh... so you're the one who calls me up every single day of my life with special offers?
Jamal Malik : Actually I'm an assistant.
Prem Kumar : An assistant phone basher? And what does an assistant phone basher do exactly?
Jamal Malik : I get tea for people and...
Prem Kumar : Chaiwalah! Well ladies and gentlemen, Jamal Malik, garma garam chai dene walah from Mumbai, lets play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!

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Latika : You want to do something for me?
Jamal Malik : Anything.
Latika : Then forget me!

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Jamal Malik : When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.

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Latika : I thought we'd be together only in death.

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[ last lines ]
Latika : Kiss me!

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Police Inspector : [ whispering ] Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's won 10 million. [ pause ]
Police Inspector : What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik : [ quietly ] The answers. [ spits out blood ]
Jamal Malik : [ quietly and gently ] I knew the answers.

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Police Inspector : Money and women. The reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.

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Middle Jamal : The guide book was written by a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing Indian beggars!

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[ Salim and Jamal are sitting on the edge of an apartment floor, under construction ]
Older Salim : That... used to be our slum. Can you believe that, huh? [ pointing at something ]
Older Salim : We used to live right there, man. Now, it's all business. India is at the center of the world now, bhai. And I... I am at the center... of the center. This is all Javed bhai's.
Jamal Malik : Javed Khan... the gangster from our slum? You work for him?
Older Salim : Come on, who else do you think would save us from Maman's guys, huh?
Jamal Malik : What do you do for him?
Older Salim : Anything he asks. [ pause in conversation, as Salim's phone rings ]
Older Salim : He's coming. You need to go now. Take my card.
Jamal Malik : What for?
Older Salim : You think I'm gonna let you out of my sights again, huh? You stay with me now, younger brother. Now, go. My place.
Jamal Malik : Salim, where is Latika?
Older Salim : Still...? She's gone, brother. Long gone. Now, go. Go to my place.

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Jamal Malik : I love you.
Latika : So what?

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Jamal Malik : I'll wait for you at the train station every day at five.

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Youngest Jamal : I just need Maman to like my singing, and were in the money, big money Latika.
Youngest Latika : And then what? Can we stop begging?
Youngest Jamal : Begging? Are you kidding? We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road. You, me and Salim, the three musketeers.
Youngest Latika : Harbour Road? Really?
Youngest Jamal : Yes, in the moonlight. You and me. You'll dance with me won't you? [ dances ]
Youngest Latika : [ laughs ] I hope you sing better than you dance.

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Jamal Malik : If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother.

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Javed : My enemy's enemy is a friend.

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Older Salim : Left a message for you at work.
Jamal Malik : There was no message.
Older Salim : I definitely left a mess...
Jamal Malik : There was no message! There was no message! THERE WAS NO MESSAGE!
Jamal Malik : [ Looks down at Salim starting to cry a little ]
Jamal Malik : I will never forgive you!
Older Salim : I know.

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Police Inspector : Well, well. The Slumdog Barks.

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[ after being beaten by a cop for vandalizing a car ]
Jamal Malik : [ to an American tourist couple ] You wanted to see a bit of the real India?
Jamal Malik : [ angrily to the cop ] Here it is!

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