The 10-year-old actor in Slumdog Millionaire got a rude awakening when government officials bulldozed his home this morning. The “Star” of the huge box office hit will sleep on the muddy ground tonight along with his family.
The movie may have grossed over $326 MILLION and won Best Picture, however, apparently that cash did not get passed along to the talent. It is shocking to learn, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who played a young Salim, still lived in a shack located in a (you guessed it) slum! it’s true! That is until they bulldozed that shack in to rubble!!
Director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Coulson vowed to pitch in a measly $30,000 to help the kids find real homes. I think it is time we boycott this film in it’s DVD and rental release. This is a travesty. These little kids put everything they had in to this film and made it a smashing success and how these fat cats can sleep at night is a mystery to me.
Let’s wake them up!
BOYCOTT SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE!! THE COMMENT SECTION OF THIS STORY (below) WILL SERVE AS A PETITION! PLEASE COMMENT AND EXPRESS YOUR DISAPPROVAL! YOUR COMMENTS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE PRODUCERS AND BLOCKBUSTER, HOLLYWOOD VIDEO, NETFLIX AND ANYONE ELSE WHO IS STILL PROFITING FROM THIS FILM! THESE KIDS DESERVE BETTER!
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Boycott all future projects and products by all associated with this movie until the child actors get their new homes and bank accounts and proper royalty deals. Yes roaylty deals. Why should the others get royalty deals and not these children. Mr. Coulsan give it up. You are all gross unless you make it right now……. BOYCOTT THESE PEOPLE. If it were my project I would not rest until those kids were safe.
I completely agree with this boycott.
I wonder how legally we could help these poor children
ste’phane
This is truly disgusting!! Shame on all of them! It is a travesty to use and abuse people on this kind of scale..I have worked on sets on movies and it is a hard days work that is usually paid very very very well!! How could they use children like this and make them work so hard and then just throw them back in the street after the great help they provided??
It goes to show you…what is really important to the people who are selling us all this media/movies/art/spirituality..MONEY POWER GREED!!!
I am boycotting everything these dudes do from now on…
in my opinion this is no better than rape – there should be posters placed at every mall, grocery store, etc ALL OVER THE WORLD with the names, addresses, phone numbers, and fotos of the people that did this to those poor kids – there’s simply no excuse – please email everyone you know and mention this atrocity on every website you can and expose what these lowlifes did – if we all do even that much maybe we can get something done about this – i can think of a worthy punishment for this – it’s just too much – can anybody email me with any info on the organization responsible for this – i will start it off – i’ve never been so disgusted in all my life
I am horrified that some people don’t have a conscience. It is unbelievable to me that Danny Boyle can allow these families to continue their lives in poverty.
The creators of the film have set up large trusts for the child actors, they were paid regular rates (which in cases tripled or quadrupled a slum dwelling adults annual take) and the government promised them new homes. However, it’s not the film creators’ fault that the government might break a promise and bulldoze slums, it’s just business as usual there. The creators never set out ot solve India’s problems, which aren’t just an issue of money but rather politics and social structure, but they’re giving the kids a lasting gift which will be there for them when they reach 18 and they’ve passed out of the media’s and your memory.
In fact, if this film hadn’t been about slum dwellers and cast a couple of kids from the slums, you wouldn’t have even heard of the shanties getting bulldozed, which would’ve happened anyway.