Slumdog Slum Kid Loses His Home

Does anyone know what the kid was payed on the movie?

Kitten_Witawip

@iplaudius: Might be caste more than religion, I think.

@Scout 3.0: Sure, it's all well and good except that kid is totally homeless. I'm sure he doesn't want his parents klepto-ing his hard-earned cash either, but I bet he wouldn't mind having a little money from the trust released so that he can stop using a pile of human waste as a blankie. Or maybe he would--I have no idea. Doesn't seem like anyone has actually asked him.

DahlELama

Busy. Everyone is B.U.S.Y I say!!! Too B.U.S.Y. to stop and consider all of the things happening now that will ultimately cotribute to the downfall of our great society. All other great societies toppled, and we all know that history repeats itself, so why should we be immune to this phenomenon? All it takes is foe one thoughtful person connected to this project to get the ball rolling. We hear of these "micro" loans changing lives in 3rd world countries, couldn't something be done here? And why do we all have to hear about the weekend grosses of these movie companies?????? It really does noone any good except the owners and shareholders, the rest of us nearly 299 million Americans reaaly couldn't care less. Didn't Sir Winston Churchill say that"we make a life by what we give, not by what we get"??? Sorry, but it is a shame that here we are in the 21st century and the world's children are still suffering. $$$300 million? And not one of those people made sure the villages and people the story was about benefitted in some way? If Jill Zarin can raise more than $100,000 for creaky joints why can't these kids get something from the $300,000,000 bounty??? Whew, that's a lot of zeroes fellas!!! I am so disgusted and don't mind saying so. I wonder what Nostradamus would say about all of this???

MelitaPolyhymnia

@Richard Lawson: From what I understand, the producers have set up trusts with money for the kids. Only the kids can access the cash when they become legal adults. The producers are reluctant to give money to the kids now because they are concerned that the parents will spend it all. I think back on Gary Coleman's situation and it sounds like it could be a good idea.

Scout 3.0

Someone should go on a major awards show or talk show and publicly thank the producers of the movie for privately agreeing to use the film's profits to rebuild this kid's house. Then they'll have to do it.

@DahlELama: Nothing is more important than the Prime Directive.

@badasscat: uh, i don't remember the part in the movie where the kids star in a movie where a big studio makes $300MM and they get their house razed down.

sosina

@badasscat: I think the problem is that a lot of other people got really rich off this movie and aren't having their houses bulldozed.

@Pope John Peeps II: I'm not so sure about that. I think the children are more concerned with dodging the bulldozers than visa versa.

m4ximusprim3

Ok, not to sound crass, but look. This was a film about kids living in poverty in India, starring kids living in poverty in India. What did people really expect was going to happen here? That they'd all move to Hollywood and become the next Lindsay Lohans or Zachary Quintos?

It's just interesting that people act all shocked when things like this happen to the kids in Slumdog Millionaire - did anyone actually watch the movie??

@DahlELama: I'm sure the drivers of the bulldozers thought about dodging the children. Does that count?

"I don't know what I am going to do."

Yeah, I don't think anyone does.

this is an easy fix...SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE II - THE RISE OF JAMAL!!!!!

rustylinc

Just had his shanty house bulldozed? Well, he's doing a lot better than anyone who has done business with the Weinsteins, in the past 20 years.

Mutley

Once again, Los Angeles rushes to pat itself on the back for its charity work, and no one benefits except the egos and the catering firm.

@Claire Buoyant: Your points are not mutually exclusive. It could be that you are both right.

@iplaudius: Call me cynical, but I think it has more to do with money than religion. It's probably a land-grab by the government for prime real estate.

[www.csmonitor.com]

I was wondering if this kind of thing disproportionally affects Muslims in India. Is the government more likely to mow down a Muslim shanty town? Or, to put it another way, are Muslim families more likely to be subject to this kind of distress?

Well, come on--if we made sure this kid had a house, it would change his life too much, and that's obviously awful, so what we really need to do is just ignore him. It's in his best interest, really. We're thinking of the children. Won't someone think of the children?

DahlELama

@fivehole: IMDB would suggest that you are right, sir.

DahlELama

I can guess the response a Libertarian would make:

"Boohoo. If this kid was smarter he wouldn't be in this situation. Market forces have spoken."

hidflect

I know brown kids all look alike and shit, but Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail played Salim and NOT Jamal, if I'm not mistaken.

fivehole

Time for someone to Step Up, and fast.
Personally, I'd like it to be Danny Boyle. Because we like him...at least for the moment.

Swordfish

Would someone give this family a foreclosed upon house in the US already? The producers of the film should be ashamed of themselves.

Queen of the Passive Aggressives

@Kitten_Witawip: A box of Red Hots.

I come from a Panjabi Sikh family and aside from the fact that I think this shantytown would have been razed no matter what the predominant religion of the of neighborhood was - I think its safe to say that in South Asia the religious violence happens in all directions.

AliyaBabasaur

@iplaudius:

Poverty does not discriminate. There are both Hindus and Muslims leading very poor and horrible lives in India. If you are a Hindu and very poor however you are more likely to be a victim of the caste system and cursed to live your life in a certain lowly profession as are your children and grandchildren. If you convert however, you are "allowed" to have upward mobility.

robotsattack

@Claire Buoyant: This happens all the time in India, it's not prime real estate at all, but drainage land for the monsoons.

Still sucks, though.

kimbean

Slumdog Kid: I want the MONEY!

Hollywood: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE MONEY!!

One more time-- say it with me, folks: Next time, Danny, HIRE PROFESSIONAL ACTORS. Keep your fantasy world and the real world separate. (That is, donate to charity and humanitarian causes, but, as someone said in a finer film than you'll ever make: "Nice fantasy we had going there. Too bad it got mixed up in other people's realities.")

LeonieLactuca

The child would be in proper new clean housing if the father would have accepted housing from the producers instead of insisting on cash in its place.

"It's a really difficult situation that's spiraling out of control," Colson tells EW. "We've had to constantly reevaluate the challenge of: If you want to lift people out of poverty, how the hell do you do that?" According to him, the children's parents rejected the filmmakers' offer to move them from their makeshift shacks into proper apartments, demanding instead payment in cash. "Nothing would be easier than to throw money at this," says Colson. "But we felt from the beginning that that would be irresponsible." So he and Boyle (with input from the film's U.S. distributor Fox Searchlight) have hired local Indian social workers to help negotiate a solution that will relocate the families into safe and clean housing. Colson can't say how soon they'll resolve the matter, but he promises he won't quit until they do. "We are committed to this," he says. "We'll still be on this in two or three years. And you can hold me to account on that."

[hollywoodinsider.ew.com]

Does the father have drug issues or something? Why would he insist on cash and reject housing?

This is the same kid who was in the papers not long ago because his father was beating him up in view of reporters for being too exhausted to want to do more publicity with press.

I don't blame the producers for setting up trust funds for the kids, paying their school tuition and trying to arrange housing instead of handing more cash to the parents. There are a lot of exploited American former child stars who worked away their childhood and ended up with little or nothing to show for it who would love to have had money put in trust funds where their parents couldn't eat it all up.

mostlymartian

"Slumdog Slum Kid Loses His Home" is really very sad and shocked news. Producers and directors earn lakhs of lakhs rupee from these movie. It is really ironical that a super child star haven't home. I totally blame the producers for these. They use the child and now, they forget the child star why?
And I also suggest the Indian government, to take some action against the poverty and child labor.