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Bollywood Movie Slumdog Millionaire!

Bollywood Star Amitabh Bachchan may not think of Slumdog very highly but the rest of the Bollywood does. Its based on this Indian diplomat Vikas Swaroop’s book Q & A and people are wondering why no Indian filmmaker came up with that kinda film from India. Why did it have to be a foreigner who walked away with credits of making a very ‘Indian’ film? Here’s what the biggies of Indian Film Industry had to say: Govind Nihalani: “I very much wanted to adapt Vikas Swaroop’s “Q & A” into a film. I met the author and he told me the film rights had already been sold to Film Four even before the book was published. The matter ended there.” Santosh Sivan: “I haven’t seen the film. But from what I’ve read about it, “Slumdog Millionaire” is quite a different sensibility and perspective of portraying the extremes. ” Dibakar Banerjee: “I haven’t read Vikas Swaroop’s novel, but if I had read it and liked it, of course I’d have made it. At the moment I’m negotiating th