Awesome stuff. Just saw the program on sony. Quite moving.. Real life slumdog millionaire indeed! :k:
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A poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India has become the first person to win 50m rupees (£630,000) on an Indian game show.
Sushil Kumar’s staggering win on the popular Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has transformed him into a role model for the millions of aspiring youth from similarly poor backgrounds in the country.
His win echoes the plot of the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, whose impoverished protagonist won the grand prize on the show.
Kumar, the 26-year-old son of a farm labourer, earned around £75 a month, and told viewers his family was so poor they couldn’t afford a television set.
He would watch the show at a neighbour’s home, and when they realised he had a talent for general knowledge, they persuaded him to apply for the programme.
The trip to the Mumbai studio where the show is taped was his first ride in a plane and his first visit to a big city, he said.