The situation in India

Government Initiatives 

IBEF. (2018). Say: "In the Union Budget 2017-18, the Finance Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, verified that the major push of the budget proposals is on growth stimulation, providing relief to the middle class, providing affordable housing, curbing black money, digitalisation of the economy, enhancing transparency in political funding and simplifying the tax administration in the country.

India's unemployment rate has declined to 4.8 per cent in February 2017 compared to 9.5 per cent in August 2016, as a result of the Government's increased focus towards rural jobs and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme.

The Government of Maharashtra has set a target to double farm income by 2022 through measures like large scale micro irrigation, water conservation, expansion of formal cash credit coverage, crop insurance and agriculture diversification, as per Mr Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra."

The Indian economy have development nowadays but in the past, mainly in the environment of the movie, it was totally different, many families don't have access to water and energy, they need to suffer to have food and difficulties to take a shower, to clean the clothes and the transportation. In the movie we see an experience from Jamal and the necessity that give the basic knowledge to answer the questions in the game and we see the corruption in the act of win money 

Source: 

IBEF. ABOUT INDIAN ECONOMY GROWTH RATE & STATISTICS. 2018. https://www.ibef.org/economy/indian-economy-overview [Recovered at: 07/01/2018]