beyond indian cinema, danny boyle's academy award–winning film "slumdog millionaire" (2008), based on vikas swarup's boeke prize winning novel "q & a" (2005), has been described by several reviewers as a "masala" movie, due to the way the film combines "familiar raw ingredients into a feverish masala" and culminates in "the romantic leads finding each other." this is due to the influence of the bollywood masala genre on the film. according to loveleen tandan, "slumdog millionaire" screenwriter simon beaufoy "studied salim-javed's kind of cinema minutely." the influence of bollywood masala films can also be seen in western musical films. baz luhrmann stated that his successful musical film "moulin rouge!" (2001) was directly inspired by bollywood musicals.