Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant British movie. However, I find that Indians and the Indian media praising the movie as a great Indian success are wrong. The film is grim and reveals vividly the poor progress that Mumbai and India have made during the past 60 years in development. The poverty levels in Dharavi (and slums in every other Indian city) are grinding and sub-human. The film portrays starkly homeless and poor children who are pushed into child prostitution and also blinded to make them beg. These rackets should shame us. The film also underscores how jealous Indians are of each other. The entire story is about the police torture that the protagonist undergoes, purely because people could not stomach a slum kid winning a popular quiz show.
?Rajendra K Aneja Dubai