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...there's runaway inflation, it will altogether throw economic policy haywire," Roy says. "If the Reserve Bank of India resorts to tightening the monetary policy, the industrial sector, which is already under duress, will be badly hit. It will negate the recent fiscal stimuli." (Watch TIME's video "Slumdog Millionaire Opens in India...
...Recently, though, the list has got pretty samey. Among this year's top five were two popular films, the winning Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, buttressed by three strenuously worthy films - Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader - that appealed to the political preoccupations (Watergate, gays and the Holocaust) of the Academy's venerable membership, and which almost nobody else cared...
...people watch the Oscars in years when truly popular movies are among the finalists. The biggest ratings in the past 15 years have been when Titanic and LOTR: The Return of the King swept to victory. Ratings were up a bit this year; but if two big audience favorites, Slumdog and The Dark Knight, had gone head to head, the numbers might have been astronomical. This decision is all about ratings. (Watch an interview with Slumdog composer A.R. Rahman...
...have earned about $250 million? Gran Torino and Marley & Me. As for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it added $205 million offshore for a total of $332.6 million. And the top-grossing film worldwide since last fall, with $352.8 million: that little runt of an Anglo-Indie charmer, Slumdog Millionaire. It's like a Pixar movie, without the pixels...
...Watch "The Real Slum Of Slumdog...