Slumdog Millionare Child Stars?

[gokuangel]

Has any1 seen the movie or the tabloids? Do you think all that stuff is true? Is there something about the way this movie was made or about India that I dont know about?
I dont see how after making a movie that these children who starred in it still dont have enough money to buy a decent place over there! Maybe they cant get a huge mansion or big house but how about not in the slums! I just dont know if i believe that unless some1 seriously scammed these kids and their families but even then i dont think its possible!! And how bout the pic on TMZ of the lil girls run down place with a big screen tv hanging up come on that cant real!! If they had money for that they have money for over stuff too!! What do you guys think?

[April2]

I wondered the same thing! I didn't understand why they still lived in the slums. Surely they were paid for the movie? I wonder if the parents did something with the money?

Did you all hear, too, about the little girl who played the main character? I heard her dad tried to sell her after the movie.

That movie really disturbed me too. I couldn't get some of those images out of my head. Those poor kids. They sure have to grow up fast. What kind of childhood do they really have?

[heatherlynn22]

i didn't see the movie (and don't really care to...seems lame) but i did see an article about the "child star" on yahoo how he and his family were promised a nice house and all kinds of money but once the movie was finished filming he and his family were tossed back out on the streets and a few months after that his families little shack was bulldozed down b/c his government decided to put in sewage system there or something of the sorts.

[ChitChatNine]

I watched the movie and didn't care for 3/4's of it.  At least that is what I thought when it was over.  Then, that night I couldn't sleep.  I was up 3/4's of the night thinking about parts of the movie that had really impacted my inner peace.   I cannot recall in a very long time a movie that had that much meaning caught up between the screenshots and the words.   It was really quite compelling.

I'm not sure what to believe about the child stars and their current homes.  I saw a tabloid showing one of the slumhouses being torn down and they claim they didn't know it belonged to the child star and was being knocked down according to some kind of guidelines.

C~