Slumdog Millionaire may have waltzed through Oscars [ Images ] with eight trophies but that does not make it a favourite with India [ Images ] born author Salman Rushdie [ Images ], who has dismissed it for being unrealistic.

The Booker prize winning author dismissed the film publicly in a speech at Altanta's Emory University, saying it "piles impossibility on impossibility". The writer called the book and movie nothing more than "feel-good" and complained about various portions of the story.

Rushdie, who is famous as the master of 'magic realism' also differed with Slumdog Millionaire [ Images ] director Danny Boyle [ Images ] that the film was a realistic portrayal of Mumbai [ Images ]. The 61-year-old author said several scenes in the film were beyond explanation.

The other two Oscar favourite films The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [ Images ] also failed to impress the writer, the examiner.com reported.

However, Rushdie is not the first one to criticise the film, which has earlier been slammed by stars like Aamir Khan [ Images ] and Amitabh Bachchan [ Images ].

"I have to be honest the film didn't work for me but I am happy people are liking it...I find somethings shown in the film are very over the top but that's my personal response," Aamir had said recently.