BANGALORE, INDIA: 'Slumdog Millionaire', the 'rags-to-riches' fairy tale set in Mumbai, struck gold at the 81st annual Academy Awards , capturing eight trophies, including best picture honors.

The Danny Boyle movie, which won eight Oscars including best film, has a British director, producer and writer, but India has claimed it as its own because of the Indian cast, crew and location.

Indian pride was further served by a double Oscar win for "Slumdog" composer A.R. Rahman, known here as the 'Mozart of Madras', who scooped the best original score and best song statuette at the Los Angeles awards ceremony. Resul Pookuty, who won the Oscar for sound mixing dedicated the award to India.

"They have done India proud," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a message congratulating the "entire Slumdog Millionaire team."

India basked in the reflected glory of the movie after its Oscar success on Monday witnessed a red-carpet glamor in the blogs and social networking site.

A Facebook user from India, Vidya Abhaya said, " All the awards deserve to impoverished children in India and around the World, Not particularly for the director and the film crew. The story has come out because of poverty and the deprivation. At the time of global economic depression, this movie talks about poverty and children and also the arrival of Obamas' with HOPE and CHANGE. Congratulation Danny Boyle and the team!"

A response to a blog on Oscar review in Abbeville site (www.abbeville.com/blog/) read, "Slumdog Millionaire is an undeniably stylish movie both visually and musically: the snappy editing, gritty cinematography and driving soundtrack propel the viewer forward with hardly a moment's boredom".

It was not just the Indians who rejoiced Slumdog, people from all over the world did.

"This movie is fantastically amazing and I loved every minute of it. Well done on winning 8 Oscars - shows the magnitude of this movie and is well worth seeing again and again." said, Facebook user Kim Harpley from New Zealand.

As a comment posted to a blog in www.blackvoices.com (http://www.blackvoices.com/), Mark said "I loved Slumdog its really a great true story must watch. Its different than we saw in American movie same old stuff, action and sex. This is a very exclusive movie."

Another Facebook user from Venezuela wrote, " Congratulations to all the people who worked to bring us an extraordinary and amazing movie, Danny Boyle man, you're amazing, I'm so joyful for all of you guys. excellent 8 Oscars and the BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. well done really you showed us what a excellent movie is made of."

Although there were lots of excitement and thrills among most of the masses, few antagonistic feelings too were portrayed through the blogs.

"Apparently, the story about Slums in Bombay on that Movie has been sensationalized, so as to make the movie more appealing and attract sympathies from judges (panel), more specifically the usage of poor kids, who are portrayed to be uneducated, poverty-stricken, and pitiful. And fortunately or unfortunately, it seems to have worked." said Siphiwo Siphiwo in a comment to a post in The breaking news blog of the Daily Dispatch, (blogs.dispatch.co.za).

Commenting about the music score, another post from Milliblog site (www.itwofs.com/milliblog/) read, "I am surprised by all the 'hulla-gulla' about the 'Jai Ho' song. Honestly it doesn't stand up to the songs Rahman himself has given in the beat driven genre earlier like 'Chaiyya Chaiyya'. The melody and the use of violins in the song reminds me more of LP's work in the 80s.The music is nothing path breaking. Maybe it is what the film wanted."

And then there is this another criticism that the film is "poverty porn at its worst". Do you think the film is glorifying poverty in India to make hay in the global market?