Why is a penniless waiter from Mumbai sitting in a prison cell?
Is it because:
a) he has punched a customer;
b) he has drunk too much whiskey;
c) he has taken money from the till;
d) he is the biggest quiz-show winner in history?

Ram Mohammed Thomas has been arrested. For answering twelve questions correctly on 'Who Will Win A Billion' Because a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school cannot name the smallest planet in the solar system or the plays of Shakespeare. Unless he has cheated.

Reviewing the footage of the show, Ram tells us how he won, and takes us on an amazing tour of his life. From the day he is rescued from a dustbin, to his encounter with a security-crazed Australian colonel and a spell as an over-creative guide at the Taj Mahal, Ram's survival instincts are infallible. Stunning an audience of millions, he draws on a store of street wisdom and trivia to provide him with the essential answers, not only to the quiz show, but to life itself.

Picked up from Richmond Neighbourhood Centre.

Left on the bookshelves.

Release #33 for the 2014 Movie Books Challenge