The film's success has put the two child actors in the spotlight. Both of whom are real slum kids. Rubina Ali who played Latika in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is already a Hollywood star, and now the nine-year-old actress who lives in a one-room shack with her family in a Bombay slum, has her eyes firmly set on Bollywood. Her dream has been whetted by the clamorous media attention and glitzy parties that followed the Bombay premiere of the Oscar-nominated movie, a rags-to-riches tale of a young boy from a Bombay slum, in which Rubina plays the leading lady as a young girl. "I like films. I like poems and I like my school," said the bright-eyed girl, popping a chewing gum in her mouth before confidently reciting English poems to visitors, her nose stud gleaming and pigtails bobbing. Rubina's education at an English-language school, where she is in the first grade, is a gift from 'Danny uncle', director Boyle, who has denied a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph that slum children in the film were poorly paid. The school - Rubina's first - and photographs of the premiere and a helicopter ride for the kids in the film are among the few mementos Rubina's mother Munni has of the movie that is raking in awards even as they continue to live in a shack no different from dozens around them, with no windows, running water or toilets. "She was very happy to be in the film. Now she wants to be in more films Boyle makes and become a star," Munni said of the movie that has <b>...</b>
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