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As the applauds of the Oscar award ceases down, a feeling of indignity rises in the minds of many Indians. Was the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' any better than other well made Indian movies? Are Indian movies that bad to be nominated for Oscar? Why Indian movies never won an Oscar? Why 'A.R Rahman' s other great works in the Indian movies didn't get an Oscar nomination? Like this goes the murmuring and uproar among many Indians.

These questions are the ones that should be taken into serious consideration. Many of the Indian nationals feel like betrayed or insulted before the world.Some feel that showcasing poverty in the film, India is pictured as an under-belly nation, while some others say it has shown only the dirt and filth of the slums and not the real poverty. In reality the question, 'Why Indian movies are not getting the Oscar nomination? is one that should be seriously discussed among the Indian movie makers.This issue of indignity wouldn't have raised, if the British made Indian context movie had not won the Oscars. The pride of many Indians got hurt and they feel ashamed of having given a poverty pron picture of India to the westerners.

While this low budget movie has proved of getting record collections from the Europe and America, it's director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson never thought of the movie becoming a grant success. Armed with the Oscars and a load of unprecedented publicity, Slumdog is now getting the treatment of a star-driven, mainstream Hollywood film. The victory of 'Slumdog Millionaire' should send a huge message to Hollywood: Don't overlook the littleguy,' wrote Claudia Puig in USA Today. It was being commented when Warner Independent sold the distributing rights to Fox Searchlight, thinking that the movie will create a big loss for them.

Slumdog's Lessons for Hollywood by Arther J Pais