SlumDog Millionare

This movie has been a rage recently and quite obviously bagged a lot of international awards. It has produced mixed reactions among the Indians. Some feel it is a great movie while the others believe it just debases India and wrongly bares the condition of the people living in the slums. I personally believe that the movie is a good one and truely relflects the condition of slum dwellers. I think it would be hypocritical to say it paints a very sordid image of India. The truth can't be obliterated by closing our eyes. None of the politicians in Mumbai ever talk about the apalling conditions of the people living in slums but never mince any words about instigating Mumbaikars against Non Mumbaikars or Hindus against Muslims. Are they saying silently that it is problem which can't be solved? I think the Indian government lacks the political will to salvage the situation of slum dwellers. Atleast by making a movie on slums the life of the children who acted in the movies would change. India which is one of the biggest democracy in the world cares so little about its citizens which is one of the greatest irony . It seems as if the government thinks -why the hell do we need NGOs. Movies like Slumdog millionares should be made more which would atleast hit the facts hard not only in the governments's face but in our face too who feel a lot of pride in their nation's progress in the twenty first century and forget about the fellow Indian slum dwellers who should also share the success and rise of India as a global intellectual power.