Last Sunday the internationally acclaimed composer AR Rahman became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe award. He took the prize for best original score to the film Slumdog Millionaire, a rag to riches story set in the slums of Mumbai that is taking the film world by storm.

The film follows the story of a teenager who finds fame and fortune by winning the Indian version of the TV gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On Sunday Slumdog Millionaire lived up to expectations by winning in four other categories at the Golden Globes, including best director for Irish filmmaker Danny Boyle.

Boyle has called his film a "love letter to Mumbai" - but some observers are wondering whether the film will be as well received in the country where it is set, fearing that slum life may be too much for an audience often more keen on Bollywood glitz than a film portrayal of the gritty reality they see every day on the streets of Mumbai.

Nandini Ramnath is film critic for Time Out in Mumbai and she told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that reaction had been positive so far.

"People here are proud of AR Rahman's success and that he has got his rightful acclaim. Reactions are positive to the awards but perhaps they may be more muted to how Danny Boyle has portrayed the city."

Poverty rife in Mumbai
Everyone knows that poverty exists in Mumbai - more than 60 percent of the city's inhabitants live in slums - but Nandini doesn't think it is the reality of slum life that may upset the home grown audience, but more the case that it is being represented by a foreign film maker who is showing the poverty on the big screen yet offering no solution to it.

Ms Ramnath continues,  "People here are thinking that this is making big money by trading on the view that poverty sells, we are not talking about the booming India that people here are proud of. My fear is that people will see the grittiness but not get the message of the film that it's main character has found a way to deal with it" Slumdog Millionaire has yet to be released in India - and in a country where cinema going ranks as a top-5 pastime for people across the country, it remains to be seen whether it will be a hit in Mumbai itself, a city of dreams where the vast majority live in crushing poverty.