committees have chosen to honor this trashy film it just shows their ignorance of world cinema.”

The angry director said: “I saw the film with a mixed audience at the Toronto Film Festival. The Westerners loved it. All the Indians hated it. The West loves to see us as a wasteland, filled with horror stories of exploitation and degradation. But is that all there to show of our beautiful city of Mumbai?” He asked: “Why has Danny Boyle not taken one shot of Marine Drive? Do his slum dwellers exist only within their slums?”