Amazing article. Thanks a lot for this and I fully agree with you. As such I grew curious about the movie when I came to know that it is shot in Nehru Nagar slum in Juhu, which is very near to my place. Actually I and a friend have gone into the slum a couple of times, once seeking a chai walla shop and another time to check out the market and what things are there. And yes, it is not the slum where some of the world’s poorest people would starve and live a pathetic life… It is kind of collection of shanties with low roofs, and buzzing with small scale industries… About the movie, I read many reviews and came to know many things about it. What you say here, and thanks a lot because I read one of the few reviews on it by Indians, confirms my perception. It is another attempt to sell India for dollars. Like many other directors have done in the past, and some like Deepa Mehta are champions on that. But this is a commercial movie. It is very natural to know that they showed such incidents about communal riots, beggar mafia (this concept is stolen from yester years’ Hindi movies), condition of Muslims, and slums… The idea was to sell the movie by showing India in as pathetic state as possible. And after I read Amitabh’s comment on the movie, my respect and pride for the man swelled another high. A man of his stature made this ‘politically incorrect’ statement – that the movie has deliberately shown India in poor light in front of the global media. Thanks a lot sir. I will go and comment on his blog too.