- A.R. Rahman took just 20 days to compose the entire soundtrack.
- In almost all scenes with the character Latika, she is seen to be wearing something yellow.
- The cricket match being shown on television in Javed's house is the 1st one day international of the Future Cup between India and South Africa played at Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast on June 26 2007. As shown in the movie, Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian batsman, was run out on 99. India went on to score 242 and South Africa won the match by 4 wickets with 3 balls remaining.
- At the end of the film when Salim is killed, his death mirrors the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Both were shot in the chest at point blank range, and Salim's last words - "God is great" - were, according to a number of eye-witnesses, also Gandhi's.
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- Director Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the 3 lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an auto-rikshaw driver to take the kids to school everyday until they are 16 years old.
Source: Imdb