I just remembered which part was cut out of the Indian version of Slumdog Millionaire (if there is only one). We watched it on a bus ride and I groaned a little internally because I don't like it that much, I've seen it way too many times, etc., but then it started in the middle of the movie and kept jumping around after the next scene had already started, which kept me on literal, tangible, very real tenterhooks. So tentative hypothesis: it's the same exact movie, with the same chapters, but they eliminated the one where they steal shoes outside the Taj and basically everything from that car, and the police start beating him, and the nice American lady shows him real American hospitality. Actually, I'm pretty sure they also removed the short torture sequence from the beginning. And then, since they had cut out the whole starting sequence to the movie, I guess they just pieced the rest of it together in a way that makes no sense, so it's hard to pinpoint any specific thing that's missing. The movie actually ends about forty minutes before it's over, and then it shows earlier questions and other stuff no one actually cares about, although the ending is obvious, because it's totally predestined.

Either that or Madhuri just has the weirdest fucking version of Slumdog Millionaire. Maybe equally likely.