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Q & A

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Q & A	label	Q & A
Q & A	page	QAndA
Q & A	comment	Q & A is a novel written by Vikas Swarup, mostly known as the book that inspired Slumdog Millionaire. It follows Ram Mohammed Thomas, an Indian boy from the slums, as he manages to win a billion rupees on a TV game show.The book primarily consists of a series of short story-like snapshots of Ram's life, detailing the circumstances that lead to his knowledge of the answer to each question. While the basic premise is the same as the movie, the events of his life are radically different, with only a few similarities. The story is told from his point of view, as he explains it to a benevolent lawyer who, unlike the police, believes that he didn't cheat.
Q & A	fetched	2018-09-05T22:38:27Z
Q & A	parsed	2020-06-24T07:32:58Z
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Q & A / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Q & A / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Neelima Kumari, a retired actress whom Ram worked for initially in Mumbai is clearly inspired by Bollywood actress Meena Kumari.
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Q & A / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Q & A / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: How the book seems to anyone who watched the movie first (which is saying something, considering how dark and edgy the movie already is).
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Q & A / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Q & A / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: It's the foundation of the plot — something. Since, unlike in the film, the flashback is given before you find out what question it helped Ram answer, you get to have fun figuring out what part of the story will turn out to be the Chekhov's Gun.
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Q & A / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Q & A / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Who Will Win A Billion? is a thinly-disguised Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — so thinly that the film was made by the company that owned the international rights to Millionaire, and they just used it straight.
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Q & A / int_3502f0ce	type	Someday This Will Come in Handy
Q & A / int_3502f0ce	comment	Someday This Will Come in Handy: Ram's life events that would otherwise be irrelevant in a general knowledge quiz show end up helping him in answering the questions correctly by sheer coincidence of being corresponding to a fact in each event.
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Q & A / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
Q & A / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: The premise for the novel which takes place due to the game show Who Will Win A Billion?.
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Q & A / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Q & A / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Mr.Shantaram tries to molest his daughter, Gudiya.
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Q & A / int_757257a1	type	Unpleasant Parent Reveal
Q & A / int_757257a1	comment	Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Swapna Devi is Shankar's mother, who kicked him out after walking in on her affair and even left him for dead when he fatally contracts rabies.
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Q & A / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Q & A / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Nita, a prostitute that Ram meets in Agra.
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Q & A / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Q & A / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Neelima Kumari, who tries to stay as young as possible and vehemently turns down supporting roles implying her age.
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Q & A / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Q & A / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: Bhalwant Singh, much to everyone's shock. The amputation of his leg is not due to being shot repeatedly at it by a Pakistani soldier but running away to find his wife and baby son in their village. Shelling led to their deaths except Bhalwant who merely lost his leg.
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Q & A / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Q & A / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Armaan Ali, whom Salim previously idolised and even kept a shrine of him after Salim finds out the man trying to molest him was Armaan Ali in disguise.
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Q & A / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Q & A / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Well it wouldn't make sense for events to have happened in the same order as the questions, would it?
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Q & A / int_91495e52	type	Heads or Tails?
Q & A / int_91495e52	comment	Heads or Tails?: Ram flips a "lucky coin" to make important decisions throughout his life. As it turns out, Ram's coin was a trick coin and he was fully aware of what life-changing choices he made throughout the story.
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Q & A / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Q & A / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Ram's best friend Salim and retired army officer Bhalwant Singh relate their own stories to him in the chapters "Licence to Kill" and "A Soldier's Tale" respectively.
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Q & A / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Q & A / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: In the form of two paedophiles and one priest (Brother John) who is practically a Club Kid.
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Q & A / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Q & A / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: Inverted. A snub-nosed, compact revolver recurs throughout the novel as a successful discreet and threat weapon by the users.
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Q & A / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Q & A / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Prakash Rao after he plots to kill his voodoo priestess wife Julie after realising how he is ruining his brother's life thanks to her.
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Q & A / int_a80027b8	type	Cypher Language
Q & A / int_a80027b8	comment	Cypher Language: The gibberish spoken by Shankar, a boy Ram meets in Agra is represented by this and can be easily decoded into English. In-Universe Ram points out how systematic his speech is and even picks it up later on when he is accused of stealing 400,000 rupees from landlady Swapna Devi and randomly utters a sentence in it in the game show itself.
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Q & A / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Q & A / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Mr. Shantaram, Gudiya's father. Initially often lashes out at his wife and Gudiya but eventually gets physical and culminates in splashing boiling tea at Gudiya's face.
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Q & A / int_ba9073e6	type	LandDownUnder
Q & A / int_ba9073e6	comment	Land Down Under: Ram temporarily lives with the Taylors, an Australian diplomatic family in Delhi as a servant. Learning the accent comes in handy. He tips off the local police to a location where Colonel Taylor, his employer is headed to where he is caught buying Indian military secrets. The police are convinced that the source is Australian due to the accent he used speaking to them.
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Q & A / int_cc7d7f75	type	Easy Come, Easy Go
Q & A / int_cc7d7f75	comment	Easy Come, Easy Go: There are several moments where Ram amassed a generous amount of money only to lose it all in circumstances. However, they allowed him to culminate in winning much, much more in Who Will Win A Billion? Case in point after winning 200,000 rupees from answering a question he knows by killing a dacoit who sexually assaulted his crush on the train bound for Mumbai after rubbing the entire car.
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Q & A / int_cf7ccd79	type	Orphanage of Fear
Q & A / int_cf7ccd79	comment	Orphanage of Fear: The "school" for the disabled in Goregaon that Ram and Salim were brought to.
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Q & A / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
Q & A / int_d8085f48	comment	Hollywood Voodoo: The story of Prakash Rao and his voodoo doll in the chapter "Hold On to Your Buttons".
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Q & A / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Q & A / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Gudiya turns out to be the lawyer who helps Ram. The man that Ram's friend takes a picture of on the beach is a man who once abused them and many other children for financial gain.
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Q & A / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Q & A / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: The man who Ram gave away 400,000 rupees to in the chapter "X Gkrz Opknu (or A Love Story) turns out to be an English teacher whom he contacts for help to answer the 100,000,000-rupee question about Shakespeare, who gives the correct answer even though by dumb luck.
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Q & A / int_f64a9cf7	type	EarnYourHappyEnding
Q & A / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Ram spends his 1 billion rupee reward to get the police to arrest the syndicate running the Goregaon orphanage and transferring the crippled children in it to a much better place, bail out Agra neighbour Lajwanti and fulfill her wish to give her sister a dream wedding, fund Salim's big break as the producer and most importantly, marry Nita so she escapes the prostitute life. In fact, the drive to participate in the game show was mainly to secure her hand in marriage with the reward.
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Q & A	hasFeature	Does Not Speak Common / int_59287f6e
Q & A	hasFeature	Game Show Appearance / int_59287f6e
Q & A	hasFeature	Heads or Tails? / int_59287f6e
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Q & A	hasFeature	Just Here for the Free Snacks / int_59287f6e
Q And A	seeAlso	Q & A
Q & A	hasFeature	Someday This Will Come in Handy / int_59287f6e

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