Salman Rushdie criticised Danny Boyle’s Oscar winning movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ on the grounds that it lacked plausibility. He’s obviously sensitive to the fact that the poverty in India is used as a convenient backdrop rather than attempting to carry any overt social or political message. But I think he’s underestimating the fact that the movie presents the sinister and squalid aspects of life in the slums of India when it would have been quite easy to prettify these scenes. Continue reading
