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She may be only nine years old, but Slumdog Millionaire actress Rubina Ali has made history by becoming the youngest person to 'write' an autobiography.
In her new book Slumgirl Dreaming: Journey to the Stars, the child star gives an insight from her rise from the slums of Mumbai to Hollywood fame and back again.
She also gives her opinion on 'strange' Nicole Kidman, who she starred alongside in a soft drinks advertisement.

In the 192 page book written by journalist Divya Dugar, who spent the past six months following Rubina, only 24 pages feature her pre-Slumdog life.
As well talking about making the multi Oscar-winning film and the recent demolition of her home in the Mumbai slums, Rubina also discusses her more recent acting job.
Rubina was reportedly paid more than her Slumdog salary for three days work on a French Schweppes advert, which she filmed on location in India with Nicole.
Rubina played a small child enchanted with Nicole's Indian princess character in the bizarre ad's confusing plotline.
Despite sharing a trailer together, Rubina admitted she didn't get to know the Australian actress very well.
In the book, she said: 'I really liked her, but she was very quiet and didn't speak much.
'I think she was a bit shy.'
She goes on to describe the actress as 'strange' because she refused to come out of her trailer over the whole shoot, seemingly afraid of the sun on her alabaster complexion.
Rubina was discovered by director Danny Boyle when he auditioned hundreds of children from the Mumbai slums last year and cast her as the younger version of Freida Pinto's character Latika.
In the book, Rubina admitted the success of the film hasn't changed her life so much, because she returned to the slums again after attending the Oscars in Hollywood March.
But she admits she now has higher standards of hygiene and will walk a long.

The book's writer Divya said: 'She knows a lot more about the world beyond the slum. She has seen what life is like for the rich.
'She has seen the other side of the picture and knows now that life can be better.'
Rubina's father Rafiq also vehemently denies reports he tried to cash in on his daughter's movie fame by offering to 'sell' her for £200,000.
Divya added: 'She has a blind faith in her family, she thinks they couldn't have done anything to harm her.'
Rubina is now living at an uncle's house after her shanty home was demolished by Indian authorities in May.
The youngster admitted she doesn't known where her Slumdog salary has gone, but a lot of it is believed to have funded her father's medical treatment for a broken ankle.
She said: 'I'm not sure I got all of it, or where it has all gone.'
Thanks to a trust set up by Boyle and the Slumdog producers, Rubina and co-star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail are attending school and are having homes built for them.

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Slumdog kid star Rubina Ali is news following selling attempt by her father Rafiq Qureshi, but nobody is talking about the other kid stars of the Oscar winning movie. We just made a search on other kid stars..

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (young Salim)
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, was given a flat by the city on his return from the Oscars, and now attends an English-speaking school. Recently, he was beaten by his father and got seriously ill, reports claim. Ismail was last spotted in Delhi.

Tanay Chheda (middle Jamal)
After the Slumdog, Tanay featured in a German-made documentary on the industry and is currently in Mumbai shooting My Name Is Khan. Bollywood superstar is in the lead role and Tanay is portraying as the child actor. Recently, film maker Karan Johar made it clear that Tanay would be playing the childhood role of Shah Rukh Khan in all his movies. My Name Is Khan based on the true story of a disabled Indian man detained by the US authorities.

Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (young Jamal)
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar lives in a well-to-do suburb of Mumbai. He was seen earlier this month at a Bollywood fundraising event for children’s education, sporting a new scorpion tattoo. Khedekar has been in front of the camera since he was four, appearing first in television commercials for Colgate and Kellogg’s, then in popular TV series.
And about the other stars…… is anybody know…… just comment in detail………..

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Here is the video, where two slumdog millionaire starts Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, celebrating holi on 14 March, in their slum with friends.

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The sprawling slums caressing the east side of Bandra railway station in Mumbai (Bombay) are no different from hundreds of slum clusters all across the city.
They are filthy, without a sewage system and have rows upon rows of makeshift rooms made of plastic sheets.

Malnourished children seemingly without any care in the world often run around the narrow by-lanes. Some go to schools but many don't.
Visibly the slums may be no different from those in the film sets of the award winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, but the reality is much harsher.
Slumdog finally opens in India on Friday, a day after the Oscar nominations and following worldwide success.
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These slumdog Millionaire stars are still living in slums
Slums and swanky buildings stand cheek by jowl in this city and yet their worlds don't meet.
People in the Bandra slums - like many others in the city - live in grinding poverty in the shadow of the city's new business district, the Bandra Kurla Complex.

Mumbai's slums and upmarket districts exist hand in handAzharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who plays the youngest version of the main character's brother Salim in the film, lives with his parents and siblings in a makeshift plastic tent, pitched on a half-finished government park.
Besides friends and neighbours, he has a big garbage dump and armies of mosquitoes and flies for company.
Ten-year-old Azharuddin's mother says they have been homeless for a while: "We have been squatting on this government park since the time our hutments were demolished over a year ago and despite showing the right documents to the authorities we have not been allotted our room [a one-room tiny flat]."
Rubina Ali - who portrays the youngest version of the leading lady Latika in the film - is playing with Azhar and other children.
Their faces glow in the rays of the fading sunlight. They greet the BBC team with coyness. Ask them to pronounce the film's title and they fumble amid nervous smiles. "Aslum dog minaire," says Rubina. "No," Azhar tries to correct her, with his own incorrect version.
'Miseries and pain'
A few days before its release in India an intense debate is raging whether the film has been made in the image of a Westerner.
Many Indians are upset over what they feel is the film's reinforcement of stereotypical Western views about India. They believe the film bagged the Golden Globes because it depicted India's underbelly in a white man's image.

But Rubina and Azhar's poverty-stricken existence, with an uncertain future, makes this debate redundant.
Indeed the child actors' parents believe the argumentative Mumbaikars often tend to ignore their plight.
The parents question whether a camera can ever really capture the miseries and pain of the slum dwellers. "( in the picture, From L) Tanay, Tanvi and Asutosh have learned a lot from filming"
Interestingly, the film itself is a great leveller. Its cast includes children from the middle class and exceptionally wealthy families. The rich boys in the film say interacting with the slum kids was a humbling experience.
Tanay Chheda lives in one of the city's wealthiest enclaves. "It's the world's 10th richest street," he says.
Tanay, 12, plays the middle version of leading role Jamal.
He says that he now looks at the slum kids with more compassion and love and wonders why there's so much fuss about showing poverty in Mumbai.
"Danny Boyle [the film's British director] wanted to show the truth in the movie. If we only had to show something wrong or negative about India then we wouldn't have shown that a slum boy becomes a millionaire."
Asutosh Lobo Gajiwala, who plays the middle version of the main character's brother Salim, says that if "you put a rich man in a life like theirs, the person will go into depression, but slumkids find happiness in anything and everything".
Asutosh, 15, says he believes all human beings are equal. "I was always aware that God has given me everything, but working on this movie it has clearly underlined my thought."
'Love school'
Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar plays the middle version of Latika. She insists that Danny Boyle loves Mumbai regardless of what the critics say.

There is debate in India whether the film reinforces Western views"He does not have any wrong views about our city. He always compliments this city. He always says this city is the best."
Certainly it appears that despite the merits or otherwise of capturing raw poverty in Mumbai, Azhar and Rubina's lives are in the throes of change, thanks to the exposure they had during the making of the movie. They now say they "love their school".
They now also have big dreams.
Azhar says he wants to be the next Salman Khan and Rubina would like to become as big a star as Preity Zinta, both leading Bollywood actors.
If they succeed, life will imitate art in another rags-to-riches story.

Courtecy: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7840810.stm)

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