It had a British director and was hailed at the Oscars in Los Angeles, but the box office hit “Slumdog Millionaire” is an Indian movie at heart because it embraces song and emotional expression, Bollywood filmmakers who worked on the production said Saturday. Speaking at the Bollywood film industry's annual roadshow weekend in the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, veteran actor Anil Kapoor and sound engineer Resul Pookutty said they considered “Slumdog Millionaire” a thoroughly Indian movie. “There's no attempt from Danny (director Danny Boyle) at any given time to shy away from using emotion, shy away from using music. That's the way Hindi films are done. We are not shying away from exposing ourselves emotionally. I think that's the greatest strength of our movies and that's what he (Boyle) picked up right on and in that sense, ‘Slumdog' is a truly, originally Indian movie,” Pookutty said. A third of the movie's dialogue is also in Hindi. Kapoor also disagreed with criticism that “Slumdog Millionaire” exploited poverty in India.
