❝This has greater implications of Western attitudes towards Indian cinema as a whole. Indian cinema is stereotypically viewed as a song-and-dance sequence which is not taken seriously unless the movies are accredited with approval by the West, for example the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Made by a British director, Danny Boyle, and clinching an Oscar, the highest accolade a film can receive in the Western film industry, Slumdog Millionaire popularized Indian directors and actors as well as Hindi songs and dances. Indian critics, however, pointed out the fact that the movie has become a raging phenomenon precisely because it was made by a Western director who fed the popular imagination of India as poverty-stricken and movies rife with amateur love triangles.❞