First is the erasure of Bombay's complex local histories to facilitate its reinvention as monocultural, neoliberal Mumbai. The article argues that Slumdog Millionaire constructs an urban narrative that spatializes and critiques this change, and that is built on two tropes. Recent scholarship has suggested this transformation involves the erasure of Bombay's former cosmopolitanism. In the film, the life trajectories of Jamal Malik (its Muslim protagonist), his Hindu love Latika, and his older brother Salim play out against the metamorphosis of the city from conditions of modernity to postmodernity. This article proposes that the film Slumdog Millionaire depicts a key moment in the history of India - the transformation during the 1990s of Bombay into Mumbai.
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