Are the child actors in Slumdog Millionaire being sent back to live in the slums…?
Sort of. Some of them still live in poverty but they are getting a full education paid for. Two of the older ones have agents now, but the ones that played the younger children do not. Here is what Wiki says about the children: “According to the UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, Azharuddin Ismail (who played Salim as a child) was paid £1,700 and Rubina Ali (who played Latika as a child) £500 for a month’s work on the film. The child actors continue to live in makeshift shacks in the slums of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, according to the Telegraph and ABC News. The Telegraph also reports that Ismail’s home has been demolished by the local authorities and he now sleeps under a sheet of plastic tarpaulin with his father Mohammed Ismail, who suffers from tuberculosis. A Fox Searchlight spokesman has responded that for their one-month work on the film, the child actors were paid three times the amount of an average annual salary for an adult living in their neighborhood. On 26 January 2009,
