 The film is therefore likely to support policies that have tended to further dispossess the slum dwellers in terms of material goods, power and dignity.The film, it is also suggested, celebrates characters and places that might be seen as symbolic of Western culture and models of development.Ana Cristina Mendes (2010) places Boyle's film in the context of the aestheticising and showcasing of poverty in India for artistic (and commercial) purposes, and proceeds to examine "the modes of circulation of these representations in the field of cultural production, as well as their role in enhancing the processes of ever-increasing consumption of India-related images."