'Slumdog Millionaire' quiz answer may be wrong

Slumdog runs into controversy over song credit-India-The Times of India

The odds are in its favour at the Oscars to be announced on February 22, but Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire also has a raging controversy dogging it.

The song 'Darshan Do Ghanshyam Nath Mori' sung by a blind beggar in the film is credited to 15th century poet Surdas on the show, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. But, according to N S Nepali, the son of late poet-lyricist Gopal Singh Nepali, the original song was written by his father for the 1957 film Narsi Bhagat.

Nepali, who saw Slumdog at a theatre in Mumbai a few days ago, says he is distraught at the makers of Slumdog for "overlooking this fact". "Even in the options to the question 'Who wrote the song 'Darshan do", the film shows the names: Surdas, Tulsidas, Mirabai or Kabir," says Nepali. "They have not given my father's name as one of the options. I'm devastated."

Nepali says his father, who was one of the renowned poets of the 50s, died in 1964. "And it is great disservice to his name that he misses out on the credit for a song that he and music director Ravi made famous."

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