"[Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based] explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while Boyle had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media."

"Rubina Ali - Youngest Latika"

"Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail - Youngest Salim"

"Ayush Mahesh Khedekar - Youngest Jamal"

"Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar - Middle Latika"

"Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala - Middle Salim"

"Tanay Chheda - Middle Jamal"

"Rajendranath Zutshi - Director"

"Ankur Vikal - Maman"

"Saurabh Shukla - Sergeant Srinivas"

"Anil Kapoor - Prem Kumar"

"Madhur Mittal - Salim"

"Freida Pinto - Latika"

"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!"

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

"I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question. If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother."

"[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station."

"Most ingenious. The old closet ploy. I really must congratulate you; if there's one thing I enjoy, it's a good closet ploy."

"John Clive - Chuck"

"Dudley Sutton - Inspector Mclaren"

"Gordon Rollings - Inmate"

"Byron Kane - the US Secretary of State"

"Dick Crockett - the President of the United States"

"Briony McRoberts - Margo Fassbender"

"Richard Vernon - Professor Hugo Fassbender"

"Michael Robbins - Ainsley Jarvis"

"André Maranne - François"

"Burt Kwouk - Cato Fong"

"Colin Blakely - Inspector Alec Drummond"

"Lesley-Anne Down - Olga Bariosova"

"Leonard Rossiter - Superintendent Quinlan"

"Herbert Lom - Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus"

"Peter Sellers - Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau"

"The all-new adventures of the world's most bumbling detective"

"For me, the greater the odds, the greater the shal-ahnje. And, as always, I accept the shal-ahnje."