Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" makes Mumbai look like a sewer. The film takes nasty below-the-belt potshots at the underbelly of the city, portraying Mumbai as the armpit among the metropolises.
By
Subhash K Jha
All the talk of 'poverty porn' and the obsession with garbage and faeces is frankly just that - crap. While not nearly a masterpiece, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire dares to go into places we don't - yet it remains a film pulsating with life and hope.
By
Jahan Bakshi