Slum scenes in The Avengers criticized in India

May 08, 2012 12:41

On the New York Times' India blogs: The Avengers may have left comic-book fans salivating and Hollywood studio executives happily counting their box-office receipts,' but the hit superhero movie has taken some criticism in India where audience members have "objected to scenes set in a slum", Dave Itzkoff writes in Arts Beat blog of The New York Times.

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