"Slumdog" Child Star's Home Torn Down

[Da_James_Gang]

This is retarded how this kid was a main character in a movie that made a shit load of money and he is still poor. It seems like they were taken advantage of....

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[kookoo]

That's some bullshit. The western world abuses the people below the poverty line and the fact that $100 is a lot of money to them. Considering that they acted in a world renowned movie about poverty, Fox should do something about the kid and their families, even if for publicity. They don't deserve to be in that position.

 

[DeepInTheQ!]

that was a sick movie though

 

[The Voice]

That's some bullshit. The western world abuses the people below the poverty line and the fact that $100 is a lot of money to them. Considering that they acted in a world renowned movie about poverty, Fox should do something about the kid and their families, even if for publicity. They don't deserve to be in that position.

What are you talking about? They've done their best... including setting up a trust for them

 

[Dr. Gymbo]

No wonder most of the world hates The United States of America. I find myself disgusted with this country from time to time myself.

 

[Chardon]

No wonder most of the world hates The United States of America. I find myself disgusted with this country from time to time myself.

What does this have to do with anything?

 

[camakazee]

What does this have to do with anything?

Despite what people may think, this wasn't a "Bollywood film." Fox Searchlight (I'm sure you've heard of it) is an American film company. He is upset, like many people are, because an American film company once again portrayed a disgusting example of third world exploitation. They found actual children from the slums, pulled them out for a film in which they were the actual stars, and sent them back with little compensation.

It's also why people get upset when American corporations have sweatshops overseas that pay their child workers next to nothing. Up to speed?

 

[The Common Man]

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[kookoo]

granted i don't know a lot about the situation, but why didn't the kid just stay in the states. i'd imagine having "Slumdog Millionaire" on your resume may be a good thing?

:facepalm:

 

[THE CAVS FAN]

granted i don't know a lot about the situation, but why didn't the kid just stay in the states. i'd imagine having "Slumdog Millionaire" on your resume may be a good thing?

 

[The Common Man]

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[The Voice]

A) I'm the first person to post that facepalm pic here
B) second, i told you guys i don't know a lot about the situation, i'm not gonna pretend like i do, so if you guys want to be self righteous and all knowing go ahead, but i don't really give a ****. did they abduct the kids and force them to act in the movie and then go back to the slums and drop them off? if not, i'm sure if they wanted to, there would be a way to stay here and have a better life.

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[kookoo]

A) I'm the first person to post that facepalm pic here
B) second, i told you guys i don't know a lot about the situation, i'm not gonna pretend like i do, so if you guys want to be self righteous and all knowing go ahead, but i don't really give a ****. did they abduct the kids and force them to act in the movie and then go back to the slums and drop them off? if not, i'm sure if they wanted to, there would be a way to stay here and have a better life.

The situation there for the homeless there is that they will do ANYTHING that they can to make money and survive the day. In some places, it's so bad that the kids literally fight each other to get a morsel of food. In many ways it is animalistic and that is why the kids basically took whatever they could get for that movie. They got to travel, got free food and a little bit of respect but after the hype of the movie died, so did their 15 minutes of fame.

Just to clear everything up I have a question:
If you had the opportunity to get out of that situation, why would you not leave?

They have no real way out, and it is extremely sad. So many people don't realize that there are places in the world filled with poverty. It's like Marie Antoinette (I think) with the whole "Let them eat cake" quote. If they could they would.

Anyway, hopefully this movie and all the media coverage about the kids will shed some insight on the problem and expose it to the rest of the world.

 

[The Voice]

Don't forget India's middle class is basically just beginning to start. Before companies even outsourced there, they didn't really have a middle class. In a way American companies are shitty to them, but keep in mind they also have expanded their economy.

It depends what way you look at it.

There's some movie's that depict this pretty well. One of them is called "Outsource". It shows that yeah, some have benefited off American corporations in India, there's still a huge division of classes. Thankfully, there's a growing middle class. However, this may have been halted by the recession as American companies don't want to invest in other countries. Especially with the global crisis.

 

[camakazee]

A) I'm the first person to post that facepalm pic here
B) second, i told you guys i don't know a lot about the situation, i'm not gonna pretend like i do, so if you guys want to be self righteous and all knowing go ahead, but i don't really give a ****. did they abduct the kids and force them to act in the movie and then go back to the slums and drop them off? if not, i'm sure if they wanted to, there would be a way to stay here and have a better life.

What the hell are you talking about? The movie was set and filmed in India.

Also, to shed more light, here is an article talking about their compensation for the film and what it went towards:

What they found was heartbreaking. The slum kids' lives were worse than depicted in the movie's already harrowing scenes of poverty. They reported on a 2006 Indian film investigation showing a thriving business in "arms for alms," a horrifying practice whereby medical doctors remove a limb from a healthy child to make him a more pitiful beggar.

And in a way saddest of all, they found the movie's youngest actors still living in squalour while the film itself -- made for $15 million -- has already taken in $45 million.

Reporters with the Telegraph interviewed the two children, now both 10, who played Latika and Salim in the early scenes of the film. Rubina Ali, who played Latika, was paid $1,000 for a year's work, the Telegraph reported, while Azhauddin Ismail earned $3,500. The film's producer and director arranged for the two children to be given $50 a month for food and books and reportedly told the children's parents that a trust fund has been set up for the children's future. But Azhauddin's father told the Telegraph, "We feel that the kids have been left behind by the film. They have told us there is a trust fund but we know nothing about it and have no guarantees."

Azhauddin today lives with his family under a plastic sheet beside Mumbai's train tracks. His earnings were spent on medicine to treat his father, who has tuberculosis. Rubina, meanwhile, is in a hut that she shares with her parents, and brother and sister, the Telegraph reported.

Her father, a carpenter, broke his leg working on the set of Slumdog Millionaire, and has not been able to work since.

Journalists with the London Daily Mail reported on the estimated 300,000 children who beg on the streets of India, some deliberately maimed to elicit greater sympathy from the passing crowds. They were told that child beggars are often addicted to solvents and drugs such as hashish from Afghanistan. "It helps us forget where we are," a nine-year-old boy told the newspaper.

http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...ire+returned+lives+poverty/1388909/story.html