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Slumdog Kid Gets New Home

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 4, 2009 1:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Azharuddin Ismail, the child actor who played the main character’s brother in Slumdog Millionaire, moved into a new home in an upmarket Mumbai suburb today, the BBC reports. A trust set up by the film’s producers paid for the house and is hunting for a similar abode for co-star Rubina Ali. Both were forced to leave illegal homes in the city’s slums.

“I like it here, it is really nice,” said 9-year-old Azharuddin. “But I will miss my old friends back in Bandra. Maybe I will go and visit them once in a while.” His mother was less reserved. “We have lived on the road for so many years,” she said. “I had never dreamed that we would have a roof over our heads.”

Mother of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, child actor of the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, combs his hair at their new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India, July 4, 2009.
Mother of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, child actor of the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire," combs his hair at their new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India, July 4, 2009.   (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, child actor of the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, poses for media outside his new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India, Saturday, July 4, 2009.
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, child actor of the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire," poses for media outside his new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India, Saturday, July 4, 2009.   (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, left, plays with a mobile phone on a window ledge of his new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India today.
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, left, plays with a mobile phone on a window ledge of his new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India today.   (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Spydiggity
Jul 5, 2009 7:50 AM CDT
well, we made several hundred million dollars...so we bought one of the main ppl who helped an 8,000 dollar house. he deserved it...

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