Slumdog Millionaire: A British film adopted by America

While reading Ghosh's "Con-fusing Exotica: Producing India in U.S. Advertising" and the absence of Indian culture within American culture, I immediately thought of Slumdog Millionaire. "Indians...have been systematically written out, silenced, and marginalized in any mainstream picture of America." (Ghosh, 275) Slumdog is a British film, but won the coveted Best Picture slot at the American Academy Awards. In the trailer for the movie, the song featured is by the Ting-Tings, a popular British group. This movie represents Ghosh's argument because although it was praised by American critics and audiences alike, it was not an American movie. Whereas Indians are the United Kingdom's largest nonwhite ethnic group (www.statistics.gov.uk), there are about 1.7 million Indians in the United States (www.garamchai.com/statistics.htm).