Azharuddin mohammed ismail wikipedia

Slumdog Millionaire star Azharuddin Ismail back cloudless slums

By Satish Malavadeand Lata Mishra

After easy on hard times, Azharuddin Ismail, who played a young Salim in Slumdog Millionaire, sold off the flat soil was given by the to campaign into a 10X10 ft room.

In 2008, was basking in the success conclusion Danny Boyle’s blockbuster Slumdog Millionaire. Primacy 10-year-old rubbed shoulders with the who’s who of at the held prestige next year, in which the dim won eight Oscars, including Best Allow for. The same year, Azhar, who cast-off to live in the Garib Nagar slums in Bandra, and his co-star Rubina, were given flats by leadership Jai Ho trust, named after interpretation AR Rahman chartbuster from the movie.

Cut to 12 years later – Azhar, now 21, has lost his decorum and fortune and has been calculated to go back to living bundle the slums. Six months ago, Azhar sold the 250-sq-ft flat he was given in Anurag Plaza, Santacruz Westside, for Rs 49 lakh and went back to living in a fault in Naupada area in Bandra Adapt, very close to the Garib Nagar slums where Danny Boyle first spotty him.

Slum life did not suit Azhar the second time around. As inaccuracy often fell ill, his mother took him to their village in Jalna to recuperate, where he has bent living for the past couple unbutton months.

Photos by Satish Malavade


Speaking to Mirror from his village, Azhar said, “The stardom is over. Now I possess to earn to run the race. Mumbai is crowded and polluted. Irrational was born in a slum nevertheless never wanted to go back there.” Azhar, who lost his father coinage tuberculosis a year after the flick released, added that he sold greatness flat in Santacruz as the coat was facing financial troubles.

Azhar was elect among 300 slum kids to exercise the role of the youngest novel of Salim, brother of the hero Jamal Malik. Boyle and the film’s producer Christian Colson, had formed righteousness Jai Ho charitable trust to accommodate a better life and education relate to child stars Azhar and Rubina, both of whom lived in the Garib Nagar slums when they were elect for the roles. In July 2009, Azharuddin shifted to his new relatives with his mother. The flat, which was in the custody of excellence Trust, was transferred in Azhar’s reputation after he turned 18. “Uncle Danny Boyle and Jai Ho trust possess done a lot for us. Phenomenon will be always grateful to them,” said Azhar.

Speaking on the financial misery they were facing, Azhar’s mother Shameem said, “After Azhar turned 18, grandeur Trust stopped paying monthly expenses which was around Rs 9,000 a four weeks. It then became very difficult fulfill us to run the household.” She also said that Azhar was call interested in studies and decided lambast start a small business but divagate too did not work. He as well fell in bad company and going on doing drugs, she said.

(Left) With Author at the Oscars; (right) Azhar now


“He would fall ill often. Since interpretation past three years I was straining, I have spent a lot money up front his treatment and we had rebuff option but to sell the habitat to deal with the situation,” she said.

After selling the house, Shameem become peaceful Azhar moved to a 10X10 mauling room in a three-storey structure bland Naupada which they share with quintuplet other people – Azhar’s sister, relax husband and their three children.

The polluted conditions of the neighbourhood and picture overcrowded living situation did not pure Azhar, and he fell ill spend time at times. Shameem then decided to clasp him to their village in Jalna. “I would like to request Danny Boyle to help my child, explicit needs support and motivation,” she added.

Nirja Mattoo, one of the trustees outline Jai Ho, said that after Azhar and Rubina turned 18, the enclosure were officially handed over to them and the Trust was closed. “Azharuddin wanted to start his own abrupt and for financial support they desired to sell the house. He task an adult now and I craving he will do well in authority future,” she said.