After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Follows a handful of people as they try to find success in the poverty-stricken settlement of Annawadi, which exists in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport in India. Examines the struggles these people overcome on the way to fulfilling their dreams and examines how their experiences reflect on the ongoing transformation of the country as a whole.
A memoir in which Thrity Umrigar looks back on her childhood and adolescence in Bombay, discussing the paradoxes in her life, and the parallels between her coming-of-age, and the changes that occurred in her home country at the time.
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
In 1993 Bombay, ten-year-old Chamdi runs away from his orphanage in search of his father and finds himself living on the streets, begging with a brother and sister he meets, as the city becomes engulfed in terrorism and sectarian violence.
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Sabah, a young American woman, returns to India on a search for her identity and heritage, while her aging Bombay movie-star uncle and his wife look for their gay son in the underground scenes of London and New York.
