The movie plays to Indian stereotypes

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2009)

I am a Indian who watched the movie. I find this movie highly offensive. It plays into the "Indian stereotype" by Americans/Britishers. It shows India as a very very poor country, with the only job to riches being as customer service representative to Americans. In one scene it shows child beating and declaring it as "Real India" and an American on the scene giving the beaten child $100 note and declaring it as "Real America". Well, if Boyle made a movie on the filth of America exposed by hurricane Katrina and declare it as "Real America", do you think Americans would have accepted this movie and nominated the movie for Golden Globe and possibly Oscars?