Slumdog Millionaire is way over hyped. If it weren't for the blind and limbless kids, it would have tanked.
Anyways, my problem is that I know nothing about the country it was filmed in. And the movie did not a single thing at the beginning to introduce the conditions there. Might as well have a movie about the Crips and Bloods while not explaining the gang violence of the 1990s and show it to a 14 year old. IT would be pointless.