They are no more ’slumdogs’…

One major aspects of the 8 Oscar swept Danny Boyle film-”Slumdog Millionaire”-is the lifelike performance of its child actors. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, and Rubina Ali who did the youngest age of the three central characters,have won a huge applause from all over the world.But the deplorable part behind this was two of these young stars were actually living in slums,in their real life.Rubina lives in a tiny slum near railway tracks in Mumbai, while Azharuddin’s house was demolished by the authorities a few days back and his family now lives under a polythene sheet-covered roof in the same slum.Also the reports such as slum kids were exploited and underpaid by the producers, overshadowed the glory of the success to a small extend.

But the ‘Oscars’ had really changed their lives.The Indian authorities have given both of them new apartments in Mumbai.The film’s producers Fox searchlight also have come to the rescue of them.And now they are enrolled in school for the first time and Fox searchlight had set up a fund to pay for their education, medical emergencies and basic living costs.

Though not as to the extend in the rags-to-riches story depicted in the celluloid,but still the film and its success had changed the lives of these slum kids to great extend,the important being they are no more ’slumdogs’ now.