October 29, 2009
MUMBAI, India
The two child stars of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ are at risk of losing their monthly stipend and their trust fund if they don’t start attending school, a trustee for the fund said Thursday.
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September 23, 2009
By Jesse Spero
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
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September 19, 2009
TORONTO, Ontario
A raw film about an abused teen named Precious has won the audience choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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July 05, 2009
MUMBAI, India
One of the impoverished child stars from “Slumdog Millionaire” will move from his shanty home in one of Mumbai’s more wretched slums into a new apartment next week, his mother said Sunday.
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June 18, 2009
SHANGHAI, China
Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle on Thursday gently chided China for curbing free speech in cinema, but the British filmmaker said he would love to shoot a movie in the country.
Serving as jury president at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, Boyle told a panel discussion that it was “regrettable” that Beijing imposed restrictions on movies.
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June 13, 2009
MACAU, India
It had a British director and was hailed at the Oscars in Los Angeles, but the box office hit “Slumdog Millionaire” is an Indian movie at heart because it embraces song and emotional expression, Bollywood filmmakers who worked on the production said Saturday.
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June 10, 2009
MUMBAI, India
The makers of the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” have bought a new home for one of the two child stars discovered in Mumbai’s slums.
The purchase of a 250-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment for the family of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, was completed Monday, said Nirja Mattoo, who helps oversee a trust set up by the filmmakers to help Azharuddin and his 9-year-old co-star Rubina Ali.
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June 05, 2009
LONDON, England, U.K.
One of the child stars of the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire” is to publish her life story.
Transworld Publishers says Rubina Ali’s book will tell the story of her life in the shantytown where she grew up.
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June 05, 2009
HONG KONG, China
The child stars of the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire” traded the shanties of Mumbai for Hong Kong’s skyscrapers Friday as they arrived for a charity fundraising performance.
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