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Post by thong_of_doom on Feb 18, 2009 9:04:08 GMT -5
MUMBAI, India - They are not your typical movie stars. Ten-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail lives in a lean-to made of tarpaulins and blankets. Nine-year-old Rubina Ali's home is a tiny bubble-gum pink shack. A murky open sewer runs down her narrow lane. Plucked from one of Mumbai's teeming slums to star in the Oscar-nominated hit "Slumdog Millionaire," they are India's real slumdog millionaires. Like the film's hero, an impoverished tea seller who wins money and love on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," they now have a chance to escape the grinding poverty they were born into. But as their still-unfolding story shows, things never go as smoothly in real life. The filmmakers are helping the children, but fast discovering that good intentions and deep pockets don't guarantee success. Meanwhile, sudden fame and relative fortune are sowing resentment within the families and with neighbors, who wonder why their big-eyed boys weren't cast instead. indiefilm.movies.yahoo.com/article-6-/The nerve of these film producers to gross 100 million dollars and leave these poor kids who starred in the movie to live in the sums. Its amazing to see how they rationalize it all.
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Post by Chilehead on Feb 28, 2009 17:39:49 GMT -5
Greed is an ugly thing.
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Post by Xч on Mar 3, 2009 0:22:22 GMT -5
Terrible indeed. I hate this movie though,i still think "The Wrestler" with Micky Rouke is a much better film.
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Post by RapunzeL on Mar 3, 2009 8:24:35 GMT -5
That article is an eye-opener.
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Post by thong_of_doom on Mar 3, 2009 10:32:31 GMT -5
I loved the movie, but I am almost sorry I gave them my 7 bucks to see it now. This lil film will make 300 million dollars, and the producers let these lil kids live in squalor. Disgusting
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