that's hollywood. For me it's a beautiful story on the triumph of the human spirit to overcome and be victorious. I think the film didn't merely focused on the apparent incongruities- i.e., squalor, corruption, and ethnic violence. It all adds up to support the movies theme. And fortunately for the film makers, the world is in a midst of an economic turmoil. People are down and weary. We need something to lift our spirits. Then came this film. Somehow, it did. It woudn't win the Oscars if it didn't.

Am just wonderin' though, I see some Indian films wrought with violence and all that jazz which Slumdog has shown but didn't hear a whimper about it.