Serve a HTML File with NodeJS

I have developed a backbone.js page where data was being scrapped Through an API call. I was running the public files via Apache directly. But i want to run it through node.js

I tried using

var sys = require('sys'),
    http = require('http'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    index;

fs.readFile('./index.html', function (err, data) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    index = data;
});

http.createServer(function(request, response) {
    response.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
    response.write(index);
    response.end();   
}).listen(8000);

but it did not work as when i open it a blank html page opens up.Although the title of the page change. As the title of the page is changing but it is unable to process body part of the file.
The code of html page is

    <html lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Movie db</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css" />
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="moviedb"></div>
    <script id="moviedbTemplate" type="text/template">
    <dl><h4>
    <dt>Score:</dt><dd><%= score %></dd>
    <dt>Popularity:</dt><dd><%= popularity %></dd>
<dt>Translated:</dt><dd><%= translated %></dd>
<dt>Adult:</dt><dd><%= adult%></dd>
<dt>Language:</dt><dd><%= language %></dd>
<dt>Original_Name:</dt><dd><%= original_name %></dd>
<dt>Name:</dt><dd><a href=":<%= name %>"><%= name %></a></dd>
<dt>Alternative_name:</dt><dd><%= alternative_name %></dd>
<dt>Movie_type:</dt><dd><%= movie_type %></dd>
<dt>imdb_id:</dt><dd><%= imdb_id %></dd>
<dt>Votes:</dt><dd><%= votes %></dd>
<dt>Rating:</dt><dd><%= rating %></dd>
<dt>Runtime:</dt><dd><%= runtime %></dd>
<dt>Certification:</dt><dd><%= certification %></dd>
<dt>Overview:</dt><dd><%= overview %></dd>
<dt>Released:</dt><dd><%= released %></dd></h4>    
    </dl>
    <hr>
    </script>
    <script src="js/index.js"></script>
    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/json2.js"></script>
    <script src="js/underscore-min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/backbone-min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/app.js"></script>
    </body>
    </html>

Thank you in advance.