GOOD SHOW: Sushil Kumar collects his winnings, like the hero of “Slumdog Millionaire” (above, left). (Fox Searchlight)

He’s a real-life “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Echoing the plot of the Oscar-winning movie, a poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India has become the first person ever to win $ 1 million on an Indian game show.

Sushil Kumar’s staggering win on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’’ has transformed him into a role model for millions of aspiring youth yearning to escape from poverty

Kumar’s reel-life counterpart also won the grand prize on the show.

The winner and his wife of five months wept when movie star Amitabh Bachchan, the show’s host, handed them the check.

Kumar, 26, said he will use some of his windfall to study for India’s tough civil-service exam.

And he plans to build a library in his hometown so the children of his village will have access to the books and knowledge he so desperately craved, he said.