‘Slumdog Millionaire’: The Tour
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 20th, 2009 5:41 am by HL
‘Slumdog Millionaire’: The Tour
As “Slumdog Millionaire” continues to rack up critical accolades (not to mention awards-season promotional blitzes), the film has also drawn crowds to its setting in the slums of Mumbai, India. But does this kind of attention represent a welcome boon for tourism or a form of exploitation—“poverty porn”—for a city still recovering from last November’s terrorist attacks?
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