Get over Slumdog

These days more often than not I end up discussing Slumdog Millionaire with my mates / work colleagues.Well let me tell you something I detest to discuss it any further and the mere mention of the movie vexes me.
Well to cut to the chase "Slumdog Millionaire" is not an Indian movie and it has no linkages for instance with Bollywood.The movie is shot in India and has Indian actors whom no one new before this movie.
The movie tries its level best to expose the frailities of India , I seriously doubt if the movie would have won any Oscar had the director been someone like Ashutosh Gowarirkar rather than Danny Boyle.
Iam just struggling to understand why did the movie win so many Oscars when we had so many better movies in nomination i.e The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
I mean winning an odd one Oscar is one thing but winning 8 Oscars is astounding and makes me wonder did I miss anything in the movie.I watched the movie once again with my wife and still couldn't find anything interesting.
There definitely have been better movies from or on India like "Lagaan" , "Paheli" etc.
What I fear the most is the fascination that the western society has for such movies like Slumdog generally turns into an image for the what India looks and feels like.
I feel sometimes stumped when people ask me stupid questions like if India is like what is depicted in Slumdog and it mortifies me all the more if its by a person in his / her drunken stupor...mate get a break I did not form any impressions about America when I watched "Beverly Hills Hillbillies" neither do I form any impressions after watching "Australia"
All of us as Indians whether staying in India or outside like to bask in the glory of any success attributed with anything remotely concerned with India or a person of Indian origin.
Take for example Manoj Night Shyamalan or Bobby Jindal we still get proud of them because they are "INDIANS" which is not the case they are all Americans of Indian origin.
How many times must have Shakeel O'Neil or Tiger Woods been credited with their ancestry originating from Africa.
Anyways coming back to Slumdog the movie has done more harm to India than been of any good , yes it has put the country in the spotlight but for what reasons - innocent orphan's being trained to become beggars and then being blinded for their whole life or for the girl from the pack of three musketeers being made into a prostitute valued at a high price for her virginity.
Its taken us years (I mean decades) for us to change the image of India from a land of snake charmers , elephants , freely roaming cows and being the epicentre of mysticism to a country of oppurtunities growing rapidly at the rate which America witnessed in the early 1930's.All this image building takes a lot of sacrifices and attributing ourselves with movies like Slumdog just mystifies that image all the more
So for the saving grace of GOD get over Slumdog ......