Q&A Slumdog millionaire blog #11 Tragedy Queen

     In this chapter Tragedy Queen, Ram talks about the time he spent with an actress named Neelima Kumari for three years in her flat in Juhu Vile Parle and also worked as a servant for her. Neelima had a choice to either choose Salim or Ram to be a servant and work for her, but she chose Ram over Salim just because Salim was a muslim and Neelima's mother did not like Muslims. Also, another reason is because Ram can speak english and has more advanced skills when it comes to serving a famous actress. Ram didn't find his life with a movie star was not as glamorous as he thought it would be since Neelima's mother complained about Ram not being able to do all of the chores and errands at once. Also whenever they go out for shopping, Neelima shows off her money by spending fifty thousand rupees on cosmetics and clothes, but only buys Ram some icecream. After living with Neelima for awhile, she shows him 140 movies in her video cassette in which she used to act in and he was astonished of how far she's gone in only a few years of her career. After, she starts to act a bit strange because she gets bruises and cuts every morning when she wakes up and Ram thinks its because of her past in which her mother died at eighty one. Eventually, she commited suicide and was known as the Tragedy Queen. Smita then turns on the TV and the show continues. Prem Kumar asks the tenth question which is: What is the length of the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka? The choices are going to be a) 64 km, b) 94 km, c) 137 km, and d) 209 km and answers C. But is only the test question. The real question was: is Neelima Kumari, the Tragedy queen, won the National Award in which year? Was it a) 1984, b) 1988, c) 1986, or d) 1985? Ram answered D. 1985 and won ten million rupees.