 From the London Daily Mail:
The poverty stricken child stars of Slumdog Millionaire are set to be property tycoons after being promised new homes by the film’s Oscar winning director Danny Boyle and by Mumbai officials. Boyle and producer Christian Colson told the Daily Mail that Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Ali and their families will be moved to apartments worth £20,000 each in the coming months. But in an astonishing turn of events, officials from the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority - a Mumbai housing association - have now also said they want to gift the children a new flat each. There was a public outcry after pictures emerged of the child stars living in squalor, despite the fact the film had grossed £70million worldwide. One showed ten year-old Azharuddin sleeping on a rotting makeshift mat - a bed he shared with his parents - while another featured him crouched down by rubbish, washing in dirty water. The shack that Rubina, who plays the young heroine Letika, calls home is just yards from an open sewer.
Not anymore... Question: didn't the kids get paid for the film? I should hope so!
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