The document summarizes scenes from the film "Slumdog Millionaire" that depict various urban issues faced by residents of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India. Some of the main problems highlighted include overcrowding, lack of sanitation as seen in dirty rivers and toilets that people use for bathing, drinking, and washing clothes, hazardous living conditions in makeshift tents and structures, and the challenges of living in very dense, poor areas of the large city.

1. Slumdog Millionaire: Urban issues in the DharaviSlum, 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 review
Watch the Slumdog scenes (on the server) and complete the following table, identifying urban problems.

2. Scene Brief description Problem/Issue
of what happens What are some of the conditions that make living here difficult?
1 A group of boys are + positive – The kids socialize with each other and have fun and do not mind that
playing cricket on their living conditions are poor.
an aero plane
landing & they get -Negative – The guards that chased after them are quite aggressive towards
caught and chased them even though they are young
after by a security
guy.
2 They kids continue + They are still having fun, even when they are running away from the guards
to run way form the avoiding getting caught and running in dirty areas of the slum
guards as they are
avoiding to get - The guards aren’t nice or helpful towards them, they are very cruel and want to
caught by them. catch the kids.
3 A man pays on of + They get money from guarding/looking after the toilet , and in the end the kid
the children to go that was stuck in the toilet and covered in poo got to see and get an autograph
to the dirty toilets, from the famous actor.
but one of the
brothers are in the - The toilets are built from poor materials, and it isn’t even a proper toilet, it’s
toilet and is taking 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

3. 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 + The children still manage to have fun when playing in the dirty water.
their laundry in the
dirty river, where - The women have to wash their clothes in the dirty water, where they bathe and
they bathe and drink.
drink water. Also
the children playing
with a play ball in
the river.
6 The poor little girl + The girl does her job without any fuss
is picking up
garbage in the junk - 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 + He’s brave enough to go around alone
and the city. One of
the brothers walks - The slums are so overcrowded and the city is too big, and some of the
around looking for buildings abandoned.
someone.

4. 8 The two brothers + They don’t live in the slums anymore
all grown up, sitting
on a construction - They might not have any place to stay, and since the slums is now all business,
building talking the people have had to moved to somewhere else.
about how they
used to live in the
slums, and now its
all business.
9 One of the brothers +
came of the train
and found a girl _ The train station is very crowded
that he new from
the past
10 The guy ends up an + The guy has a chance to be on that T.V show.
a show ‘who wants
to be a millionaire’ - The traffic is very bad, so some people have to leave their car there, which
and the women he could also end in someone bad stealing or breaking into there car when they
saw in the train leave.
station was stuck in
traffic so she ended
up leaving out of
her car to go to the
show.
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