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For all the attention in Hollywood, Slumdog Millionaire has failed to set the box office alight in India where it is set, with piracy, anger over its portrayal of poverty and its controversial title taking a toll.

The Oscar-nominated film about the life of a street boy who wins a fortune on a quiz show appealed to multiplex audiences with its portrayal of hope amid poverty but left viewers in small towns unimpressed.

A debate over the film's portrayal of India, where millions still live in the squalor depicted in Slumdog Millionaire," hasn't helped either.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4834962a1860.html

source:Reuters

image:4.bp.blogspot.com....SlumDog Millionaire...."not ideally suited for Indian sentiment."

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