Slumdog Millionaire bags another award

Danny Boyle, whose rags-to-riches romance Slumdog Millionaire which has won over US audiences, was named best director by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday, cementing the movie’s position as the Oscar front-runner.

The win put a positive end to a week of controversy for the film that tells of a young Indian boy raised in the slums of Mumbai who goes on to compete for a fortune on a TV talk show and in the process, also tries to win the girl of his dreams.

Slumdog has met with praise in the United States, but in India it has sparked some protests over its depiction of people living in slums.

This week, the film’s makers also came under fire in a British newspaper report claiming they had not properly cared for or paid the children who play the slum dwellers, but Boyle and producer Christian Colson said the report was inaccurate.

Reuters