10 Oscar nominations for glorifying Indian slums?

Two strong views have emerged from India's most successful movie globally - One that says that SlumDog Millionaire’ sold Indian slums and gave the world slum tourism to bag 10 oscar nominations. Is that an Indian movie, in the first place? The other, say poverty is just the backdrop of the movie which essentially highlights the triumphs of human spirit, against all possible odds.

Millions are still soaking in the glory of unprecedented global recognition and a better review will be known after the people actually see the movie. The movie released today. But is SD actually so good? No doubt, it stunned westerners how poor India is and how we pluck our children's eyes to make them beg at streets? A TV host repeatedly insults and ridicules the participant?
Amitabh bachchan or SRK did not do that. Is Jai ho, (whose initial hym resembles Rang de Basanti, Manchala) Rehman's best music score? I don't think so.

The grand old man of Bollywood BIG B raised objections on projecting India the way Slumdog did. In his blog he says, "If SM projects India as Third World dirty under belly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky under belly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. Its just that the SM idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Globe recognition."

So if Big B has such strong comments, reactions are natural. Britain's leading newspaper was quick to respond with a scathing report. "Bachchan is no doubt riled, as many other Bollywood no-talents will be, about the fact that the best film to be made about India in recent times has been made by a white man, danny boyle, " it said

It goes on to add, the bitter truth is, Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by westerners. The talent exists in India for such movies: much of it, like the brilliant actor Irrfan Khan, contributed to this film. But Bollywood producers, fixated with making flimsy films about the lives of the middle class, will never throw their weight behind such projects..........

Bachchan's blinkered comments prove how hopelessly blind he and most of Bollywood are to the reality of India and how wholly incapable they are of making films that can address it. Instead, they produce worthless trash like Jaane Tu, Rock On!! and Love Story 2050, full of affluent young Indians desperately, and mostly idiotically, trying to look cool and modern......."

Indians have generally been not appreciative of dark movies. Even satyajit ray was also criticised for selling Indian poverty to the west. City of Joy had to shoot parts of the movie back in a studio in London after protestors shut down the movie set in Kolkota.