Posted on 02/24/2009 11:59:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
A day after sweeping the Academy awards, Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson is ensuring that the children featured in the film are not left to fight life’s battles on their own.
The producers are planning a stage musical of the eight-Oscar-winning film to raise funds for Mumbai’s slum kids.
A fund set up by the filmmakers has already generated close to Rs 3.6 crore for the children. And if plans for cover versions of Rahman’s songs came to fruition, the money raised could multiply many times over, he told The Times, London. The funds would be ploughed back into the slums where the movie was filmed.
Also, plans to safeguard the future of two children from the slums — Azharuddin Mohammed, 10, and nine-year-old Rubina Qureshi — who attended the Oscars with six others from better off families, are being re-examined. He told The Times that producers wanted “something more professional” to be put in place.
“The profile of the film will remain high — we can’t assume attention on these children will drift away,” he said.
Boyle said the children also enjoyed their trip to Disneyworld and the Universal Studios. As soon as they got to the hotel, they jumped into the pool fully clothed.
The warm reception for the crew at the Oscars caught even the producers by surprise. Hollywood star Will Smith, for instance, went up to meet Madhur Mittal, who played Dev Patel’s brother in the film.
It is already fading. Other than curiosity, America has no interest in Bollywood.
Good movie.
"If I can save just one!" G--! Does NOBODY realize how RACIST it is to say that?!
Well Colson said something like this after the Oscars: “America is cool AGAIN, when it wasn’t before. I like the idea that America has become globalized again..”
He’s another hate-America foreigner. F him. Surely he could provide the $$$ for these kids to teach Americaans how to be a do-gooder (s/)
Read this if you want to see how depraved the people really are.
Crippling and maiming children for profit.
Rs 3.6 crore = 36,000,000 rupees = $723,000.
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