Danny Boyle, director of the award winning'Slumdog Millionaire', said he had the highest regard for Amitabh Bachchan, and so would rather takeBig B's blog comments about the film in his stride.

“The film isbased on (a work of) fiction and it takes a cue from what Vikas Swarup narratesin his book 'Q&A'. It is not that Swarup wrote the book in the backdrop ofMumbai's posh south Mumbai locality and Boyle deliberately set his film againstthe background of the city's slum in order to run down India'seconomic progress."

"Anyway,why get jittery about India'spoverty and try to hide it? Because, the fact is, we are a poor country andpoverty is there for all to see. Is there any harm if it is highlighted in afilm for the sake of realism?"

Boyle said:"'Slumdog Millionaire' should be seen as a film which salutes Mumbai'sbreathtaking resilience, a city in which poverty is never seen as a curse andthe poor hardly ever resent it,"

It will bereleased in Indiaby Fox Star Studios Jan 23 with 400 prints across 85 centres.

"Aportion of the box-office proceeds will be donated to the Slum Welfare Fund ofMumbai," revealed producer Christian Colson.

Seems more like a marketing strategy, than real conflict.Controversial movies do good business in Indiain comparison to other movies. Let wait and watch the fate of this movie, howwell it will do at box office?