Slumkids fancy `Slumdog Millionaire` as just a Bollywood film

New Delhi, June 23: Left to them children in New Delhi`s slums may not give an Oscar to "Slumdog Millionaire." For them it`s just another movie.Dharam and Danesh, live in the Golkuan slums of Okhla, in the industrial area of the capital. They saw the Oscar winning blockbuster on cable and DVD and liked "Ringa Ringa Ringa" and "Jai Ho" songs that have become their favourites.

Students after viewing the film facilitated by Deepalaya, a school that is run for slum and street children, said they found it to be on the level of any other Bollywood entertainer. Both Dharam and Dinesh, students of class VII and V respectively unanimously say the train sequence and the winning moment of Jamaal was liked by them. Karan, another student of Class V, however described the whole story with great enthusiasm relating few sequences to his own life and was touched by the sequence where the mother of the protagonists was killed during riots. Established in 1999, Deepalaya school lies almost attached to the slums and has a strength of 329 in a colony of 10,000 slums, says Poonam Thakur, head teacher. This NGO has schools in Sanjay Basti, Okhla Phase 2 and in Malviya Nagar too. Their school in Kalkaji Extension, recently got recognised by CBSE upto Class X. She is planning to screen the movie as soon as vacations are on. Meanwhile, activities like clay modelling and, jewellery making keeps them busy. Bureau Report