Slumdog children to be rehoused

People are going to make millions on this,so it’s the least that can happen.

Two child actors from the film Slumdog Millionaire will be moved from slums to new houses by Indian authorities. Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played young versions of two main characters, were discovered by casting agents in Mumbai’s Garib Nagar slum. There was an outcry when it was found they were still living there after the success of the Oscar-winning film. – From BBC

And they thought their good fortune peaked when they met Mickey. Two of Slumdog Millionaire’s child actors are, quite literally, slumming it no more, with the Indian government rewarding the poverty-stricken toasts of Hollywood with new homes for their families outside of the Mumbai slums. Amarjeet Singh Manhas, the chairman of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, said that Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the youngest versions of Freida Pinto and Madhur Mittal’s characters in the Oscar juggernaut, “are special and have won laurels for the country and we want to felicitate them.” – From Eonline.com