Protesters 'will burn Boyle effigies'

Protesters in India have vowed to burn effigies of director Danny Boyle in protest against the title of his Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire.

Some Indians have complained that the name of the movie insults people who live in slums.

Tateshwar Vishwakarma, the general secretary of a slum dwellers rights group, told the Indo-Asian News Service that he has filed a complaint against the film.

"Referring to people living in slums as dogs is a violation of human rights," he said. "We will burn Danny Boyle's effigies in 56 slums here."

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy said: "I just made up the word. I liked the idea. I didn't mean to offend anyone."

One of the film's stars Anil Kapoor denied that the term was offensive, claiming that children from slums are "actually called much worse names".