I'm sure there's a news item somewhere on the net about this, but I just heard on the radio the young children that co-starred in Slumdog (they played the protagonists as young tikes) still live in the level of squalor that they, themselves, depicted in the movie. According to the news brief, bulldozers began razing their shanties some time this week. The mother of one of the stars was interviewed sitting on a curb, homeless, saying "We don't know what we'll do or where to go". It's also mentioned in the radio news brief that the producers of "Slumdog" have sent thousands of dollars their way since the success of the film but, mysteriously, none of it has reached the families.
Amazing. Kinda makes me like this movie just a bit less. This concern was raised quite a while ago, by Indian citizens and U.S. citizens alike. True, no one is obligated to pay these children anything more than the couple hundred bucks they probably initially paid them to star in this sweeping super saga, but ya figure after all the monetary success of this film as well as the international attention it's received for it's entertainment and controversial value, the people who garnered millions from this movie would get these two or three families OUT of the gutter and into nice, meager home--and find some type of decent jobs for the parents or relatives of the children so those meager homes can be maintained.
I'm assuming at this point, the producers will HAVE to address this. To some extent it's exploitation, and to some extent it isn't. I just know those kids have the whole fucking world to do with the zillions of dollars that movie made.
Humanity. It's for the birds.
Amazing. Kinda makes me like this movie just a bit less. This concern was raised quite a while ago, by Indian citizens and U.S. citizens alike. True, no one is obligated to pay these children anything more than the couple hundred bucks they probably initially paid them to star in this sweeping super saga, but ya figure after all the monetary success of this film as well as the international attention it's received for it's entertainment and controversial value, the people who garnered millions from this movie would get these two or three families OUT of the gutter and into nice, meager home--and find some type of decent jobs for the parents or relatives of the children so those meager homes can be maintained.
I'm assuming at this point, the producers will HAVE to address this. To some extent it's exploitation, and to some extent it isn't. I just know those kids have the whole fucking world to do with the zillions of dollars that movie made.
Humanity. It's for the birds.
