Remember how two of the Slumdog Millionaire children have had their homes razed in the past month? Well in what appears to be the first good thing that has happened to any of them since they had the overwhelming privilege of watching Danny Boyle win all those Oscars, one of them has a new home. This is good news! What, you think I won't write about when good things happen, too? I'm not a monster. From the AP:
The makers of the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire" have bought a new home for one of the two child stars discovered in Mumbai's slums.
The purchase of a 250-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment for the family of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, was completed Monday, said Nirja Mattoo, who helps oversee a trust set up by the filmmakers to help Azharuddin and his 9-year-old co-star Rubina Ali.
"They can move in," Mattoo told The Associated Press Wednesday, adding that the trust plans to deliver the keys Thursday.
Both children lost their homes last month when authorities demolished parts of their slum.
Mattoo said the trust is actively looking for a new home for Rubina.
Finding a new home for only one out of two homeless children who were largely responsible for the runaway success of your horrible movie but are once again living in abject squalor is not the best track record, and 250-square-feet is not that many square-feet considering a whole family is going to live in there and by that standard I would like Danny Boyle to also live in a 250-square-foot apartment, but yay! Azharuddin Ismail's pillow will be made out of pillow instead of "smelly sack of something, not sure what." And if it's true that they are actively looking for a new home for Rubina, we might even be TWO FOR TWO in child stars of Slumdog Millionaire not literally sleeping in piles of garbage or being shuttled between distant relatives already overburdened with their own lives of poverty and hardship. Success! (Is what we would say! If that happens!)
