Rushdie Slams Slumdog

March 3, 2009 at 6:41am PST
Tags: Guardian, Salman Rushdie, Slumdog Millionaire, Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Photos: Fox Searchlight Pictures, splashnewsonline.com

Salman Rushdie, who was born in Mumbai, the setting of Best Picture winning Slumdog Millionaire, has written a scathing critique of the film for Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

In the article, published on Saturday, he calls the idea of a boy winning the top prize on India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire “a patently ridiculous conceit, the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name.”

He said that the idea that the boy could have learned all of the answers solely through life experiences is a “beggar’s belief.”

Damn, cranky pants.

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