Slumdog Millionaire

Went to see Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" while I was in London. Here' my two cents: not bad. Really not bad. A must see.

Danny's techniques to move a spectator to tears are trite and transparent at a first glance. IF it was fiction. It is not. That's actually the way things were/are in Mumbai, as far as I know (we cooperate with some outsourcing partners in India).

I personally always liked Danny Boyle for "Trainspotting", "The Beach" and "28 days later" (one of the best horror movies I've seen), and I was so afraid to be kinda "biased", that I kept searching for the reasons, what's bad in "Slumdog"... Until I relaxed and realized that the movie is actually quite good.

Two questions bother me though: first - would it earn a 2009-best-picture if it was an Indian movie by Indian director/producers? And second - why all the "bad guys" are hindu, and all the "good guys" are muslims?