马哈维亚（阿米尔·汗 Aamir Khan 饰）曾经是一名前途无量的摔跤运动员，在放弃了职业生涯后，他最大的遗憾就是没有能够替国家赢得金牌。马哈维亚将这份希望寄托在了尚未出生的儿子身上，哪知道妻子接连给他生了两个女儿，取名吉塔（法缇玛·萨那·纱卡 Fatima Sana Shaikh 饰）和巴比塔（桑亚·玛荷塔 Sanya Malhotra 饰）。让马哈维亚没有想到的是，两个姑娘展现出了杰出的摔跤天赋，让他幡然醒悟，就算是女孩，也能够昂首挺胸的站在比赛场上，为了国家和她们自己赢得荣誉。
就这样，在马哈维亚的指导下，吉塔和巴比塔开始了艰苦的训练，两人进步神速，很快就因为在比赛中连连获胜而成为了当地的名人。为了获得更多的机会，吉塔进入了国家体育学院学习，在那里，她将面对更大的诱惑和更多的选择。

This is a candid attempt that delves into the ideas and perspectives at the local level in trying to understand the global implications of the rise of China’s provinces and India’s states and what that means for Americans and Europeans doing business and conducting diplomacy.

人生已至暮年的七位英国老人辗转前往印度斋浦尔度假。七人中，善解人意的伊芙琳（朱迪·丹奇 Judi Dench 饰）试图在丧夫后独立生活；患心脏疾病的大法官格雷厄姆（汤姆·威尔金森 Tom Wilkinson 饰）怀揣着无法启齿的秘密；道格拉斯（比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰）和琼希望能改善僵化的夫妻关系；老顽童诺曼和老来俏玛琪则时刻期盼着艳遇；至于穆瑞尔（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰），等待手术的她总是显得有几分冷漠刻薄。
各怀心事的七人被异域风情广告吸引，不约而同下榻在玛丽戈德饭店。但是真实的饭店并不如广告宣扬的那般舒适，这趟印度心灵之旅也不似预想般尽如人意。在陌生的国度里，众人对余下的人生展开了新的思考，不希望抱憾终身的他们向着皆大欢喜的结局努力着。
影片改编自英国女作家Deborah Moggach的小说《These Foolish Things》。

我叫拉姆•穆罕默德•托马斯，是一个孟买的孤儿。
我被捕了，因为我在一个电视竞猜节目中赢了10亿卢比的巨奖，而他们都认为作弊了。理由很简单：一个贫民窟孩子的知识怎么可能可能如此渊博？就在我被残忍折磨的时候，一个美丽的女律师出现解救了我。我向她讲述了我的神奇经历，从孤儿院到妓院，从列车劫匪到丐帮头目，我所经历的每一种苦难，都成为了最宝贵的财富。
《贫民窟的百万富翁》充满了纷繁芜杂的喜剧、惊心动魄的悲剧，以及现代印度催人泪下的迷乱气氛……这部作品不光节奏极快，情节跌宕起伏，内容也异常丰富。
同名电影保留了小说的框架，却无法展现小说中深远的印度风情和复杂的情节、人物关系。只有看过了原著，你才能真正理解这个故事的内涵。

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.