Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, the most for any film that year, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film.

Despite this overwhelming spendthrift recognition across globe, the hullabaloo seems not fading out. Its pride for our nation, it’s the movie which has broaden our prospective towards the international film making standards and there level of understanding Indian sentiments.

Bollywood has made great number of movies depicting the slums in Mumbai, but from the eyes of Boyle – it’s something different. But for some its really getting into there nerves to extend that they can’t impede themselves censuring the movie.

Recently director Priyadarshan has joined the bandwagon of the bashers of Slumdog. The same old accusations have been rehearsed again this time through a different voice. His main charge remains the same - Slumdog is the unrelenting feast of filth.

He said: "The West loves to see us as a wasteland, filled with horror stories of exploitation and degradation. But is that all there’s to our beautiful city of Mumbai? Why are we taking this treatment? Just because a white man has made Slumdog Millionaire, we’re so happy with it?"

The film is also the subject of controversy concerning its portrayal of India, Hinduism, alleged persecution of minorities and the welfare of its child actors.

Our great Big B has stated that: "if SM projects India as Third World dirty under belly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky under belly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations."

He also said: "It's just that the SM idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not."[

Noted author Salman Rushdie has taken serious issue with the credibility of Slumdog. Rushdie was pointedly not joining in the applause for author Vikas Swarup and director Danny Boyle.

He said: "The movie piles impossibility on impossibility," he said in a lecture at Emory University in Atlanta, raising questions over how the characters end up at the Taj Mahal, 1,000 miles from where they were in the previous scene, and how they manage to get their hands on a gun in India.”

He added: “I have problems with the storyline. I find the storyline unconvincing. It just couldn't happen. I'm not adverse to magic realism but there has to be a level of plausibility, and I felt there were three or four moments in the film where the storyline breached that rule.”

Following its release in India, the film faced criticism from various members of the public alleging that the film fuels western stereotypes about poverty in India and that it peddles "poverty porn" and "slum voyeurism".

When I saw Slumdog at a theatre in Fresno, California, first time before it was released in India, the overwhelming response from the mass said it everything. No doubt when it comes to judging a movie it’s the ‘people’ who have all the virtue to depict it in a sense where these self proclaimed designated people fail to chase the truth behind.

I salute you Slumdog!