Abstract
Through a comparative analysis of Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), this chapter critiques the commodification of fantasy and cinematic escapism in Bollywood and the depiction of Dharavi as a veritable Disneyland full of crimes, drugs, prostitution, and mafia, and as a land of utter poverty and moral bankruptcy. This is a strong case study of how Orientalism is, in fact, alive in contemporary Hollywood and in bourgeois Indian cinema under neoliberalism.
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Raj, S. J., & Sreekumar, R. (2016). Slum Extravaganza!: Cultural and Geopolitical Representation of Dharavi in Celluloid India. In Global Cinema (pp. 163–179). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94932-8_9
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