What do real slumdogs think of Slumdog Millionaire?

As the films is becoming more and more popular it is reaching deep rooted and the realistic story of poor slum residents. Whereas it also had lots of controversy where people and other society had said in front of Indian Media that it was insulting movie.

Anita,poor girl in dharvi,Famous slum area in Mumbai, says,"we are already clothes less and why others are still on removing our clothes by using humiliating words for the film like 'SLUM DOG'? These rich and literate people doesn't see any difference in human beings and dogs. They have no right."

Meanwhile, in the northern state of Bihar, one of India's poorest regions, a slum-dweller has taken the Indian stars of the film to court, alleging that Slumdog 's graphic portrayal of Mumbai's shanty towns has offended millions of his peers. Tateshwar Vishwakarma, a social activist, later organised a protest that resulted in a mob ransacking a cinema showing the film in Patna, the capital of Bihar.

His biggest complaint: the use of the term “slumdog”. “Referring to people living in slums as dogs is a violation of human rights,” he alleged. There have also been a few rather thinly attended demonstrations in Mumbai's slums.

Cynics will note that firebrand activists, most of them championing dubious causes, regularly attack cinemas in India to garner cheap publicity. But it could be argued that Slumdog's controversial title does not fit the film.

Though there were many exceptional cases, where many asked if they find the film insulting, the children reply with a bemused “no” - it shows real things, they reiterate: poverty, prostitution, murder, theft, blackmail, religious violence, the exploitation of the weak. Its “heart” is entirely authentic, they say, and it's good for outsiders to see how they exist. This endorsement appears to undermine the criticism that Slumdog has attracted in India and in the West. India's English-language media has, for the most part, embraced the film and celebrated its successes, but there have been high-profile backlashes against its depiction of India's urban poor. Last month, Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood star, took a swipe at the portrayal of the country as a “Third World, dirty, underbelly developing nation” - a characterisation that he said had caused “pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots”. In the UK, newspaper columnists have branded the film voyeuristic “poverty porn”.