The poverty-stricken father of Rubina Ali, the child star of the Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, wants to cash in on his daughter’s success by putting her up for sale. The father wants to escape India’s real life slums by putting his special daughter, who he claims is an Oscar child, up for adoption. He is demanding millions of rupees worth 200,000. The father says that he has to consider what is best for himself, his family, and Rubina’s future. The father, whose name is Rafiq, is desperate to cash in on his daughter’s success by selling her to the highest bidder. He claims that they received almost no money from the film’s success, and continue to live in poverty and he just cannot support his family.
Rubina won the hearts of millions around the world by playing young Latika in Dan Boyle’s movie, “Slumdog Millionaire”, which won eight Oscars. The movie was filmed in the ghetto of Mumbai, which depicts true scenes of poverty and child cruelty, where young orphans are crippled and blinded by thugs and forced to beg on the streets to bring them money, just like depicted in the movie.
The sort of transaction that Rubina’s father is attempting to do is far from unusual in an impoverished nation, where human life comes cheap and children are treated as a commodity. What are your thoughts on the father putting his famous daughter up for sale?
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I actually just saw this article posted today on perezhilton.com. This is absolutely horrible. I just read the update that the father of Rubina Ali was arrested for such a horrible crime.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe someone would do something so terrible and I hope he remains in jail for a long time.