the 66th
Annual Golden Globe Awards, you'll know that the big winner of the night was
the unlikely blockbuster film, "Slumdog Millionaire", which won Best Director
and Best Motion Picture (Drama), not to mention Best Score and Best
Screenplay.
Joining "The Takeaway" to discuss the accolades is Vikas
Swarup. While his day job is pretty impressive as India's Deputy High Commissioner
to South Africa, his current claim to fame is writing the novel "Q &
A," which is the basis for the film.
The movie and the book sets up a premise about knowledge and
understanding, where a young man wins an enormous prize on a quiz show and is
accused of cheating because he couldn't possibly know the answers. But his
explanation of how he came to know those individual bits of knowledge is an
amazing story of what it's like to grow up poor in India.
Swarup: "For me, this was the central message ... sometimes street
knowledge can be as important as book knowledge. So let's not pretend that
those of us who go to universities and read newspapers -- we are the only ones
who know. And those that serve us ... they don't know anything. I wanted to
show that life experiences can sometimes also give you the clues to the answers
on a quiz show."
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