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Seriously? Another Slumdog Millionaire child’s home was bulldozed to the ground without warning? Yikes. The Mumbai children who starred in that movie are cursed! (Of course, most of the Mumbai children who didn’t star in that movie are also basically cursed.) From the AP:
The shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire” child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived.
Munni Qureshi — the stepmother of 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who portrayed a young Latika, the Oscar-winning film’s heroine — said her husband was beaten by police who were supervising the demolition. She said he was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
“How can the police barge in anytime without giving us notice,” Qureshi said, as she wept holding her forehead. Neighbors poured water over her to keep her cool as she sat in the scorching summer sun with Rubina.
“I’m feeling bad,” Rubina told The Associated Press. “My house had been demolished. I’m thinking about where to sleep.”
Hey, I don’t want to be weird about this, and I know that the problems of abject poverty are complicated and not easily resolved, and I know that the plight of three individuals highlights but does not encompass the vast misery of the third world, but um, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE HELP THESE KIDS? Jeez. Supposedly Danny Boyle and his friends have set up a trust for the kids to access when they turn 18, and that they have tried to set up school and housing for them, but not tried hard enough. Fucking figure it out, you clowns. No joke.
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I feel like these articles always hit at the heart of the complex emotions involved. “I’m feeling bad.” Investigative! What was the last one? “I am poor”?
If we learned anything from Slumdog Millionaire, it’s that this’ll all end in a goofy dance. Don’t worry–everything will be fine once the credits roll.
Even if these kids were legally obligated to money made off this movie they still probably wouldn’t see a dime…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
The Slumdog kids aren’t the only kids in India who are having major problems… but they’re more important because they were in a moovee!
I refuse to watch Slumdog and now I never will. The entire profits from that movie should be put to use helping the children of Mumbai, not some exec’s bank account.
Look, -you- people go to Mumbai and try to stop the rampant kickbacks to ‘save’ these kids.
Duh. The more theyre in the news, the more they get to be squeezed for sympathy and $.
You think a filmmaker has legal rights in another country to do what he wants? Like house them with ‘parents’ that he hires? No. He has zero fucking rights in India. As, I assume, most of you all.
What…life doesn’t magically change after an Oscar?
In India, the phrase “Celebrities: They’re just like us!” actually means something.
Still haven’t seen it.
If it weren’t for that movie, you probably wouldn’t have spared a thought today for any newly homeless children in Indian slums. You might have, but it isn’t likely.
If they weren’t in the movie, it would never be REPORTED. Which is the only way we’d find out about these homes being destroyed, without notice, and the people living there beaten.
What Gabe said. For Christ’s sake, DO something.
..the dalit crisis is one that needs media attention because it is a secret issue that is not well known of..
the whole thing needs to stop.
i think its good that being associated with slumdog millionarre gives it some attention, its been going on for far too long
Any of those slumdog girls can shave my balls or suck my dick.
Brad Purcell
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Atlanta, GA