Slumdog Millionaire: Urban issues in the Dharavi Slum, Mumbai

Where is the Dharavi Slum and why has it become famous?

Why do people come to live in the Dharavi slum?

Slumdog Millionaire film reviewWatch the Slumdog scenes (on the server) and complete the following table, identifying urban problems.

Scene Brief description of what happens

Problem/IssueWhat are some of the conditions that make living here difficult?

1 A group of boys are playing cricket on an aero plane landing & they get caught and chased after by a security guy.

+ positive – The kids socialize with each other and have fun and do not mind that their living conditions are poor.

-Negative – The guards that chased after them are quite aggressive towards them even though they are young

2 They kids continue to run way form the guards as they are avoiding to get caught by them.

+ They are still having fun, even when they are running away from the guards avoiding getting caught and running in dirty areas of the slum

- The guards aren’t nice or helpful towards them, they are very cruel and want to catch the kids.

3 A man pays on of the children to go to the dirty toilets, but one of the brothers are in the toilet and is taking

+ They get money from guarding/looking after the toilet , and in the end the kid that was stuck in the toilet and covered in poo got to see and get an autograph from the famous actor.

- The toilets are built from poor materials, and it isn’t even a proper toilet, it’s just built from wood and has a hole on the floor of it and beneath it is poo.

too long, so the man takes his money back and cursers and them. While on of the children is in the toilet, his favourite actor arrives in his helicopter and his friend locks him in the toilet, which cause him to jump through the hole in the toilet and lands in a pile of poo, just to see his favourite actor.

4 I short scene of the view of the slums.

+ …

- Very densely populated, way to overcrowded and dirty.

5 The women doing their laundry in the dirty river, where they bathe and drink water. Also the children playing with a play ball in the river.

+ The children still manage to have fun when playing in the dirty water.

- The women have to wash their clothes in the dirty water, where they bathe and drink.

6 The poor little girl is picking up garbage in the junk

+ The girl does her job without any fuss

- She probably gets paid very little money and has to work in bad conditions.

place, where it is very dirty. The two brothers are resting in a unclosed tent near the rubbish.

7 A view of the slums and the city. One of the brothers walks around looking for someone.

+ He’s brave enough to go around alone

- The slums are so overcrowded and the city is too big, and some of the buildings abandoned.

8 The two brothers all grown up, sitting on a construction building talking about how they used to live in the slums, and now its all business.

+ They don’t live in the slums anymore

- They might not have any place to stay, and since the slums is now all business, the people have had to moved to somewhere else.

9 One of the brothers came of the train and found a girl that he new from the past

+

_ The train station is very crowded

10 The guy ends up an a show ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ and the women he saw in the train station was stuck in traffic so she ended up leaving out of her car to go to the

+ The guy has a chance to be on that T.V show.

- The traffic is very bad, so some people have to leave their car there, which could also end in someone bad stealing or breaking into there car when they leave.

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