'Slumdog' star among 2,000 made homeless by fire in Mumbai shanty town

After the success of the movie Slum Dog Millionaire the child actors received very little from the financial windfall. After an outcry over their lack of monetary inclusion the production company set-up a foundation to help the these children find more appropriate housing yet today one of them is homeless after her families tin shanty was burned down in a large fire in Mumbai. It would with all the money earned from the film which was released in 2008 that these children wouldn't still be living in a slum.

"Slumdog Millionaire" child star Rubina Ali said Saturday that her home had burned down in a fire that raged through a crowded slum in the Indian city of Mumbai, injuring 21 people and leaving about 2,000 homeless.
Most of the awards that she received for her role as a poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film were destroyed in the blaze that erupted in the Garib Nagar slum late Friday, the 12-year-old said.
She said that she and other members of her family were watching television when they heard shouts of a fire and ran out of their tin-roofed shanty.