‘Slumdog…’ child-stars welcome to support us: Mumbai Congress

July 5th, 2009 'Slumdog' kid star to move into new home next weekMUMBAI, 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. "On Friday we got the keys," said Shameem Ismail, the mother of child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who played the young Salim in the Oscar-winning hit.

July 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Azharuddin Ismail, child star of the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire" got his new home in an upmarket Mumbai suburb on Saturday. Ismail, who played the youngest Salim in the movie Directed by Danny Boyle, was exuberant about his newly allocated apartment.

June 10th, 2009 'Slumdog' child star gets new home in MumbaiMUMBAI, 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.

June 10th, 2009 'Slumdog' child star gets new homeMUMBAI, 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. Both children lost their homes last month when authorities demolished parts of their slum.

June 5th, 2009 'Slumdog' child star, 9, to publish life storyLONDON — 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.

May 29th, 2009 Official: 'Slumdog' kids to get government homesMUMBAI, India — The government will give the two impoverished child stars of the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire" new homes, the state's top official said Friday, creating the possibility that the homeless children will soon own not one but two new apartments. Rubina Ali, 9, and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, both lost their homes this month when authorities demolished parts of their slum in Mumbai.

May 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Shanty home of Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire's child star Rubina Ali was brought down by the civic authorities in Mumbai, an action which brought her family on road months after gaining a global appreciation. Rubina's house in a teeming slum was one of several settlements that were demolished by local authorities in Mumbai.

May 14th, 2009 Mumbai authorities tear down 'Slumdog' star's homeMUMBAI, India — City workers bulldozed the home of a "Slumdog Millionaire" child star Thursday as part of the demolition of dozens of shanties in a Mumbai slum. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was asleep when a police officer woke him up and told him to leave his family's home, he said.

May 14th, 2009 Home of 'Slumdog' star torn downMUMBAI, India — City workers demolishing part of a Mumbai slum on Thursday bulldozed the home of a "Slumdog Millionaire" child star. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was asleep in his shanty when a police officer woke him up and told him to leave, he said.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Oscar-winning 'Slumdog Millionaire' stars and real life couple Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have been spotted kissing during a romantic night out in Israel, says a report. The actors, who played childhood sweethearts in 'Slumdog...', have frequently dismissed rumours that they are dating even after co-star Anil Kapoor hinted they were an item, femalefirst.com reports.

April 22nd, 2009 Police: No evidence against dad of 'Slumdog' starMUMBAI, India — Indian police said they have so far found no evidence that the father of a child star in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" tried to sell the 9-year-old girl to an undercover reporter. Police opened an investigation following a complaint from Khurshid Begum, the estranged mother of "Slumdog Millionaire" star Rubina Ali, after News of the World reported the father planned to put her up for adoption.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The producers of multiple Oscar-winning movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' are hoping to change the lives of children living in Mumbai slums with a $744,000 programme aimed at providing healthcare and education to these kids. 'Slumdog Millionaire is a film which epitomises the positive spirit of children and the film's success is an inspiration and a way forward to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children of Mumbai,' said actor Anil Kapoor in a statement.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - All dressed up and smiling, the child stars of Oscar winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' - Rubina Ali Qureshi and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail Shaikh - came from the shanties of Mumbai and met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here Thursday. 'Soniaji today met the kids who had acted in 'Slumdog Millionaire',' Tom Vadakkan, media secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC), told IANS.

February 25th, 2009 MUMBAI - 'Slumdog Millionaire' child actors Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina Rafiq can now leave the squalor of their slum homes, courtesy the Maharashtra government which Tuesday night announced that both would be given a flat each. Azharuddin Ismail Shaikh Usman and Rubina Rafiq Asghar Ali Qureshi are residents of Garib Nagar slum in Bandra East, Mumbai.

February 22nd, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The child stars of Mumbai-set hit movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' will be celebrating two firsts this weekend: a trip on an airplane and a ticket to the Oscars Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday. 'The kids are on their way to the Oscars! Everyone is very excited,' the film's British director Danny Boyle wrote to Daily News in an email Friday.