Slumdog Millionaire: Fact or Fiction?
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscar’s with 8 awards! What a moment for the people of Mumbai. To be seen. To have their conditions
witnessed. This fictionalized account of life in Mumbai was filled with reality and truth. The locations are real: masses of people forced to live without dignity, devoid of basic human rights, stripped of their humanity. The conditions are real: high-density dilapidated housing with open sewers; scarcity of water; horrific pollution; destitution and poverty; corruption; maiming; sweatshops. (more…)
















