Lacking in Nativity!!!

Rating: 1/10 (6 January 2009)

The language in which the characters speak is the soul of a movie. Cidade de Deus, Shichinin no samurai, Ladri di biciclette were made in native language and so the originality of the movie was intact even though I watched those movies with English subtitles. Slumdog millionaire is totally lacking on this aspect and it is definitely not a film to be rated in the top 250.
I understand that the movie is made for western audience. But, It would have been better if the movie was made in Hindi and was released with subtitles to the western audience (similar to Lagaan).
I prefer watching movies in native language with subtitles than watching a dubbed movie. So, it was hard for me to digest the characters communicating in English instead of in Hindi. This is definitely a major flaw and so the movie falls flat on its face.
It is not surprising to look at rave comments from western audience, but this movie is not for me and also for those if at all there is anyone who feels that language is the soul of a movie.