Jai Ho! Slumdog Millionaire victory bittersweet in India
Slumdog Millionaire took home the Oscar for Best Picture, but not everybody in India is celebrating. There’s a mixture of pride and resentment over this movie — a film made by a Westerner that tells the story of a so-called slumdog from Mumbai. For an on-the-ground report we turn to Linda Blake, a freelance reporter in Delhi, India.
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