The director add that we "have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we’ve left on the world.”Seventeen years ago, Slumdog Millionaire swept the 81st Academy Awards, walking away with eight of the 10 Oscars it was nominated for.

The ‘28 Years Later’ director reflected on the Oscar-winning film that starred Dev Patel and Freida Pinto: “We wouldn’t be able to make that now.”

Danny Boyle has said his hit film Slumdog Millionaire was cultural appropriation. The British director, who also made the films Trainspotting and 127 Hours, said that he was proud of Slumdog Millionaire, but that “you wouldn’t even contemplate doing something like that today”.