SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and India’s Social Inequalities at Don’t Panic

Heydon Prowse’s "Slumdog and Billionaires" at Don’t Panic:
"Danny Boyle’s latest film, Slumdog Millionaire, about an orphan from the Mumbai slums who reaches the final of the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is winning awards all over the place (including Best Film and Best Director at BIFA). We should all go to see it, but perhaps not because of the superlatives that it is consistently squeezing from the pens of critics, but because of what it tells us about Mumbai’s social inequality in the wake of the recent attacks.
"Who exactly does want to be a millionaire in Mumbai? The answer is, pretty much everyone. And how many will actually [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 18, 2008   
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