“She hoped to teach at a university in the U.S. and later send for the rest of her family who lived in a slum in Mexico.”

“Slumdog Millionaire passed Ben Button to become the highest grosser of the Oscar nominees this last Tuesday.”

“Priya, 17, has chosen to be a slumdog, and her life reads like a film script.”

“But Anupama Chopra says the show lacks the color, music, or masala to rival Slumdog Millionaire.”

“The episode highlights the irony of a hundred affluent voices somehow being stridently louder than the cries of lakhs of poor slumdwellers.”