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Anil Kapoor Wins the Slumdog Footrace

  • 2/23/09 at 09:30 AM
Anil Kapoor Wins the Slumdog Footrace

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After Steven Spielberg announced that Slumdog Millionaire had won Best Picture last night, did you happen to notice which hilarious Bollywood egotist was the first one to the stage? Of course it was serial podium rusher Anil Kapoor! Once Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson arrived at the microphone, they had to motion for the film's cast members to follow them — but not Anil, because, somehow, incredibly, like a pompadoured bolt of lightning, faster than a poop-covered slumdog, he had already made it out of his seat and up the stairs. How did he do it? Did he bodysurf over the first ten rows? Had he just been hiding under the podium the entire night? See the amazing video — which will surely be studied by Olympic sprinters and professional illusionists for decades — after the jump.

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