Slumdog is Oscar winner.

Is the celebration in India justified, is Slumdog really an Indian film? Mutiny puts it well.

But you wouldn't know it from reading the gushing Indian media!

Here is a take from the British media.

And one from Salman Rushdie

Rushdie: 'Slumdog' laden with impossible scenes

February 23, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) — Famed novelist Salman Rushdie apparently wasn't too impressed with the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," telling an Atlanta audience it "piles impossibility on impossibility."

Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for the author's death in 1989, made the remarks Sunday during a speech to more than 1,000 people at Atlanta's Emory University. The author criticized other Oscar winners adapted from books, including "The Reader" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the 61-year-old author of "The Satanic Verses" complained about several scenes, including one in which characters wind up at the Taj Mahal — 1,000 miles from the previous scene.