Smita Shah: Ram's lawyer and childhood friend. By the end of the book, he has helped Ram win the show and commits suicide in his car, though Ram suspects the show's producers had a hand in his death, since Ram wasn't supposed to win the quiz show. It is later revealed that he is the man who abused Ram's former employer and Nita. Prem Kumar: The host of the quiz show Who Will Win a Billion? (or W3B). To sum up, his character is coined as young and childish, compared to Ram Mohammed Thomas. He is two years younger than Ram and very handsome with a clear, musical voice. When he was younger, a fortuneteller predicted that he would be more famous than his Bollywood idol, which spurred on his dreams.
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Salim Ilyasi: Ram's best friend and cousin, who has dreams of becoming a Bollywood movie star. His name stands for three religions because it is unknown which religion his parents had. Generally, he has a very pessimistic and realistic view of life. He possesses a "lucky" coin that he uses when confronted with big decisions-but both sides are "heads". He is in love with Nita and believes firmly in destiny. Ram Mohammad Thomas: The main character, who tells his life story to the lawyer who came to the police station and wanted to help him. To date, the book has sold translation rights in 43 languages, including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Finnish, Slovenian, Croatian, Turkish, Icelandic, Chinese, Polish, Russian ( Question - Answer), Norwegian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hindi, Gujarati (as Jackpot), Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Sinhala, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Hebrew (both as The Riddle Boy from Mumbai), and Portuguese. It was also nominated for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.
Q & A won the South Africa's Boeke Prize 2006. At around the same time, Charles Ingram, a British army major, was found guilty of cheating in the British version of the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? To quote Swarup: “If a British army major can be accused of cheating, then an ignorant tiffin boy from the world's biggest slum can definitely be accused of cheating.” The idea for the story came from a report in a local newspaper, about children living in the Indian slums using mobile phones and the internet.
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