Now, in protest, composer A.R. Rahman has refused to let Smith use the movie’s anthem ‘Jai Ho’.u00a0Smith, who had an executive-producing credit on ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, owns screen rights to the story and recently broke off talks with Boyle over creative control of the stage version. Smith then brought in “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes to take over.

Close-knit Boyle and the film’s creative team — including screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, producer Christian Colson and Rahman — have said they’ll only do the show if they can all work on it together.