Slumdog millionaire Rubina Ali reveals life ten years after leaving the streets of Mumbai

On Oscar night, next weekend, all eyes will be on Olivia Colman, the 45-year-old British actress who is presided over for the glory of Best Actress for her role as Queen Anne in The Favorite.

It will be a remarkable evening for Colman, but nothing has been compared to Rubina Ali's experience on the red carpet in Hollywood 10 years ago.

Slumdog Millionaire's star, Rubina, was 10 years old when she left India and her tiny hut in the Mumbai slum, to get to the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood, where all The eyes were on her since Danny Boyle's film had won eight Oscars.

A decade later, instead of rubbing shoulders with stars in LA next Sunday, 20-year-old Rubina will be watching her one-bedroom apartment in Bandra West, right across the Bandra East slum where she was born.

Rubina said, "The Oscars have been unforgettable. It was one of the most incredible days. But sometimes, one has the impression of a dream: I was so young.

"I was very happy to meet all the Hollywood stars and discover the red carpet. I never imagined it would happen in my life. "

Rubina with wide-eyed eyes plays the young Latika, who falls in love with Jamal, played by Dev Patel.

Remembering her trip to Los Angeles, Rubina, now a student and part-time office worker, said, "I remember I did not like American food. Dev Patel was feeding me with his hand – pizzas and burgers – but I love Indian spicy food, I did not like continental food. "

Rubina lived in a tiny brick and corrugated tin hut in shanty towns with dad Rafiq, brother-in-law Munni, two brothers and two sisters, when a friend heard that American film producers were looking for slum children for a Hollywood movie.

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Rubina, whose biological mother, Khushi, was released from the family home at the age of four, received an initial allowance of about £ 624, a huge figure compared to the salary of £ 110 a month from her husband. father as a carpenter.

Danny Boyle later trained the Jai Ho Trust to help Rubina and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail – the only other kid from the slum in the movie – and funded a good education and an apartment for each of them.

She says, "Uncle Danny has been wonderful. He supported me so much. He paid for my studies and came to visit me every year. I would visit him at his hotel and he would ask me questions about my life. He helped me a lot. "

"Danny is very kind and loving with us. I like it too. "

The two children went to an English school in Bandra West and, at the age of 18, received an undisclosed amount of the trust, along with the titles of their apartments.

Rubina told Mirror that she was revisiting the slums where she had lived and where the movie had been shot: "I grew up much faster thanks to Slumdog.

"The film stole my childhood. My mom and dad did not know much, they were not educated and so had no idea how to handle celebrity and attention. It was too much for them.

She says the film also brought her "fake friends" because she found herself a target for opportunists who tried to profit from her success. She offered her family and family free food and clothes, but when the interest in the film started to fade, the offers also stopped.

Rubina says, "After the movie, everyone wanted to be my friend because I was Rubina. People bought me gifts and clothes and fed me, but then they disappeared.

"Before Slumdog, there was no one, there were so many people, there was no one left. They wanted to be famous because I was famous.

Rubina's 15 minutes of fame had a negative impact on her already tense family. There were stories of her mother fighting with her mother-in-law, she scrambled with her father and even moved in with her aunt and uncle for a while.

Rubina says she saw a lot of "deception," but refuses to elaborate. His touch with celebrity in Hollywood left him on guard, struggling to trust people.

She says, "Now I live a simple life.

"I do not have many friends and I do not drink alcohol. I've seen a lot of fake people shortly after Slumdog, so I'm suspicious of people.

"I do not like being with a lot of people, I do not really trust. I'm pretty lonely and I like that.

"I do not want people to use me to hurt me. I want to stay away from people, really. I prefer to be alone than with people who are fake.

"Some people still recognize me, but not as much as before. Shortly after the movie, everyone called me and sang Jai Ho, but not so much these days. "

It's a sad statement for a 20-year-old woman. But Rubina was on a roller coaster that few people could imagine.

His first house in the slums was destroyed to make room for a railroad track the year of the film and his second house was completely burned down in 2011, the fire destroying all his memories of his life. Oscar and her light blue dress that she wore at the awards ceremony. .

At the age of 13, she moved to the apartment where she lives now.

Much of her family still lives in shantytowns, and while showing the Mirror the region she lived in, she admits that, despite the terrible conditions, she lacks the community spirit she once shared.

Rubina says, "I often go back to the slum to see my uncle and my family. It's different now, so I do not feel emotion when I go there, but it used to be my home.

"The house I owned was missing. I loved my neighbors and my close family nearby. We were a close community – everyone was so nice, but he left now. Of course, the film also gave him a lot of possibilities. She is now studying art and literature at the University of Mumbai and works part-time in an office.

Rubina, who ran in the movie Belle in 2013, still wants to be an actor and insists that, on the whole, Slumdog 's experience has been wonderful.

She says, "It's my dream to be an actor and I want to achieve it. I know my family is very proud of me. "

She says, "I love Hollywood and Bollywood, but I do not want to live abroad. I want to stay in Mumbai, so I guess Bollywood will be my future.

"If I become a successful actress in adulthood, I know now that you have to be careful with people. I'm ready for celebrity now. Once you have attracted attention, people appear out of nowhere. "

She wants to share the same advice with other young stars, including 11-year-old Sunny Pawar when he went to the Oscars after playing with his old friend Dev Patel in the 2016 movie, Lion. Rubina said, "I would tell young stars to get the right support, the right guidelines. I watched the movie Lion with the little Sunny Pawar.

"I would tell Sunny to make sure her family gets the advice they need to make the right decisions and make the most of the opportunities.

"All glory, this world, it is very different from our normal lives."

Rubina had a lot of this support from Danny, a lifesaver for which she will always be grateful. But even though she is still waiting for her visits, she admits she has not seen Slumdog for a while.

Rubina, speaking about the movie that changed her life, said, "I do not look at it, it's embarrbading.

"I play the role of a beggar, so it's very embarrbading to watch. I laugh when I see myself. "