The film is set in the slums of India, and the narrative technique is reversed. The film mainly uses a lot of montage techniques to separate the three lines in the program, recalling childhood and reality.

The film begins with Jamal, the hero, participating in the variety show "Who Can Become a Millionaire". Jamal only needs to answer one more question to become the grand prize winner. Seeing that success was coming, Jamal was arrested by the police for cheating in the program.

The first scene of the film gave Jamal, the hero, a close-up of his face. In front of Jamal, a cloud of smoke separated him from the interrogation police, indicating that their identities and status were different. Instead, he gave the interrogation police a close-up of his face. The policeman had a condescending expression on his face, while Jamal was expressionless. Accompanied by a slap in the face of the police, a subtitle was cut off and a question was thrown to the audience: "What is his success?" Provide clues. Then,-the picture of piling up money crosses the scene of the program, showing the attraction of the program with huge bonuses and money. At this time, there was a similar countdown sound backstage, suggesting that the program began "Who can become a millionaire?" And huge bonuses-step by step close to Jamal. The director switched back and forth between Jamal and the host's face close-ups with focused lights. Then, expose the darkness behind the program. The host's questions in the live program are intertwined with the memories of the protagonist's related questions and the pictures of the police station. In the scene of the police station, Jamal is hung as the foreground of the dialogue between two policemen, and Jamal is the center of the dialogue between them. The prospect of Jamal's close dialogue with the police gives people a sense of oppression. In the scene where the police pulled Jamal out of the water and talked with two policemen to torture Jamal with electricity, the directors all filmed him from the roof and rendered Jamal's misery. After that, procedural issues were interspersed in Jamal's memories. The first memory is the scene where Jamal played ball with his brother and companions when he was a child. When the police chased a group of children in the film, the background music of the film left a deep impression on me. The fast-paced drums keep pace with the chase and won't make people feel bored.

With the pace of catching up, the lens of the film brings us many shots of the slum living environment. The chase between children and police is interspersed with some images of slum life, such as a man picking up garbage in a dirty river. In this process, the director also gave the slum a great prospect, showing the ruin of the slum and the huge population.

Every question Jamal answered originated from his childhood memories, which revealed India's religious, humanistic and educational problems at different levels. Jamal is in a simple wooden house. He was locked in by his brother when he went to the toilet. He jumped into the cesspit for his idol's signature and got it. Jamal's courage and persistence can be seen from here. Then Salim sold Jamal's signature photo for money, which can echo the fact that Salim died in the pile of money. In the film, the director used a lot of overhead tilt shots. For example, Jamal and his younger brother Salim were sent by their mother. In class, when the teacher told Jamal to open the book, the director patted the teacher with the tilted lens above his head-a feeling of depression, and then the teacher hit Jamal on the head with the book, and he came back to reality with the beating.