“Everybody is talking about Slumdog,” said Ganesh Tikonkar, a guide for Reality Tours, a company that takes about 50 people a day through Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum. “Now people want to see the real thing.”
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Film Tourism
The London Times reports that Mumbai’s controversial “slum tourism” industry, which promises fee-paying outsiders a glimpse of life inside the city’s shantytowns, is flourishing. Numbers are up, agents say, as Westerners shun the beaches of Goa and palaces of Rajasthan to experience the reality behind British film Slumdog Millionaire.
“Everybody is talking about Slumdog,” said Ganesh Tikonkar, a guide for Reality Tours, a company that takes about 50 people a day through Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum. “Now people want to see the real thing.”
“Everybody is talking about Slumdog,” said Ganesh Tikonkar, a guide for Reality Tours, a company that takes about 50 people a day through Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum. “Now people want to see the real thing.”
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