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A lesson in reality for the Slumdog stars
They mixed with Hollywood’s elite, signed autographs and enjoyed trips to Disneyland and Santa Monica Beach. But they are apparently struggling to cope on their return to Mumbai
GOING BACK TO school after a dream holiday is always tough. But the young stars of Slumdog Millionaire could find it harder than most.
Social workers say they fear for the psychological wellbeing of both Rubina Qureshi and Azharuddin Ismail, who are now back in the slums they call home after a whirlwind trip to the Oscars.
While Rubina, eight, never wants to take off the pretty dress she wore to the Academy Awards, ten-year-old Azharuddin has been battling a bug that left him with a temperature of 103.
The children, who joined the rest of the cast on the Oscars stage to collect one of Slumdog’s eight awards, arrived back in Mumbai last week and returned to school on Saturday.
During their stay in Los Angeles, they experienced soft beds and bathrooms for the first time in their lives.
They mixed with Hollywood’s elite, signed autographs and enjoyed trips to Disneyland and Santa Monica Beach. But they are apparently struggling to cope on their return to reality.
As they sat at their desks, reunited with their friends, the children did their best to smile. But Azharuddin has been prescribed antibiotics after spending the weekend battling fever and exhaustion. (He was also in tears after a beating from his father on Friday).
“I am very sad,” he said. “I feel sleepy, hot and sick all the time. I can’t get to sleep here - there are too many mosquitoes and it is so hot. I just wish I was in America still.”
Rubina is also upset to be home, where a sewer pipe runs past the front door.
“I don’t want to live here in the slum any more,” she declared. “I don’t want to sleep on the floor any more. I want a proper bed and live where the air does not smell. I have seen what it is like in America. I have realised how bad life is here. I just want to get out.” Both the Slumdog Millionaire producers and the Mumbai Housing Authority have promised to provide proper houses for both Azharuddin and Rubina’s families. But until they are built, the children are forced to remain in the slums.
Slumdog director Danny Boyle was also back in his hometown yesterday.
He received a down-to-earth welcome at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Social Club in Radcliffe, Lancashire, where he had a drink with his 88-year- old father Frank. He said: “It’s good to be rooted in a place like this where people will say to you ‘How the bloody hell did you get to win an Oscar?’.”
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