Oscar Winning Kids Re-homed.
Updated : Feb 26, 2009
Two child actors from the multi Oscar winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' will be re-homed from the slums of India to new up to date homes by Indian Government. Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the younger versions of the two main characters, were discovered by casting agents in Mumbai's Garib Nagar slum. There was an outcry when it was discovered they were still living in the slum after the success of the Oscar-winning film.
Local housing association chairman Amarjeet Singh Manhas said: "Since the children have made the nation proud, they must be given free houses."
Rubina, nine, is currently living with her family in a one room shack while 10-year-old Azharuddin's family home, located under a tarpaulin by a busy road, was recently demolished.
The boy's father, Mohammed, who suffers from tuberculosis, told The Times of India: "We have barely got any money from the film-makers. In fact, whatever came, has already been spent. This decision is a piece of good news for us.''
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