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Success in the international arena has also brought forth unexpected consequences, with both her biological mother Khushi and her step-mother Munni, with whom she lives in suburban Bandra slums, asserting their 'right' over her.
Both want to claim Rubina, basking in international fame after the golden Oscar run of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, as their own.
Rubina, who plays the child Latika, lives with her father Rafiq Qureshi and Munni.
Following the success of the Danny Boyle film, Khushi has returned to Garib Nagar slums, where she lives with her carpenter father.
According to Rafiq, Khushi left him and their three children -- Rubina is the youngest -- five years ago to marry 'some rich person' and never returned. However, Khushi says she had left the children with their grandmother.
Rubina's life changed when talent hunter Parvez Ahmed picked up a bunch of kids from the slums and put them on sets of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Rubina has never attended school.
The filmmakers paid the children for 30 days of acting work, their families a small monthly stipend and set up a trust through which the children will get money after their graduation.
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it seems to quite a greedy nature of human being. she left her when she needed mother's love and care the most to live a better life deserting Rubina on gods grace. she might even not been alive if she has not been adopted. even a dumb can understand that she has only returned to take monetary benefit from her. so the so called biological mother should be arrested in crime of deserting her child and she should never be allowed to meet Rubina.
The worst thing that could now happen is when these one-day wonders go straight back to their slums right after they land from LA. They need education before they can make a claim to better lives. For now they need sponsorships and attention for their development. There is a clear danger they will be lost otherwise.
Ultimate we remain a nation with a farmer's mentality - the more children we have, the more free labour we can command to contribute to a family's income. Love, selflessness etc sometimes falls by the way when money or a lack of it enters the picture. In one way Rubina's story reminds me of the Techie Manju who was paralysed in a Car accident in US and then left in a Delhi hospital . His own parents abandoned him since he was not in a position to send them an income, and finally they had to be shamed into visiting him in Delhi by Media reports. If it werent for the media, they would not have cared to even try for a train ticket to Delhi to see him before he died.
Thank you, Danny, at least you have changed some lives which our politicians have failed to do. Also you have made us and our politicians a little bit ashamed at least for a moment.
Truly interesting to see how maternal love develops along with money