Movie Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

Prem Kumar:
The chaiwalah has done it again!

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.

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]

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...

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.

Middle Jamal:
[seeing the Taj Mahal] Is this heaven?


Middle Salim:
You're not dead Jamal.


Middle Jamal:
What is it? Some hotel?

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!

Latika:
You want to do something for me?


Jamal Malik:
Anything.


Latika:
Then forget me!

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

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

[last lines]


Latika:
Kiss me!

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.

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

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

[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.

Jamal Malik:
I love you.


Latika:
So what?

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

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.

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

Javed:
My enemy's enemy is a friend.