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Slumdog Should-Be Millionaire

Friday, May 15th, 2009
by andrew.pogorzelski

Millions of people poured into theaters worldwide to witness one of the year’s best motion pictures, Slumdog Millionaire. Grossing over three-hundred million dollars worldwide and taking home a wheelbarrow of awards, the film is critically acclaimed for its unique delivery and authenticity to the struggle to survive in the Indian slums. Despite the vast amount of awards and accolades the film has received, controversies surrounding the child actors have started to surface. Actress Rubina Ali’s father allegedly put the “Oscar child” up for sale for more than $300,000 according to Entertainment Weekly. The father put Rubina up for adoption in order to, “…consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future.” Thousands of outraged movie goers and celebrities have clocked in their opinions, saying Ali’s father, Rafiq Quereshi “selling” his daughter is a “soulless” and greedy act.

Rafiq Quereshi is not to blame for this issue. The real issue is not the fact he is putting his daughter up for adoption for cash, it’s the fact that he is forced to. Slumdog has made hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide at the box office and with the recent release on DVD, the movie will continue to generate millions more. Quereshi claims that he needs the money to support his family and do what is best for his daughter, stating, “”Why will we sell her? She is going to earn so much more? Does anyone sell a cow that can still be milked?”

From our self-proclaimed politically “correct” point of view, we see Rubina is treated as a material object and it is an utter outrage. How can a man sell his own daughter? We do not understand that this happens every day in India, families give up their kids or sell them to orphanages or to adoptive parents to survive each day. Rubina’s father is giving his family an opportunity to escape the slums that make the American ghettos look like the Ritz, as well as giving his daughter a chance for a better life. Director Danny Boyle claims that he has paid for the children’s education and has installed trust funds for them which they may obtain when they turn eighteen. Besides the fact that these kids got royally screwed out of being paid up front, the money that is invested in their future may be for naught. In these living conditions, life is not secure, money is needed instantly in order to improve their lives and to simply make it through the day, which we take for granted every day.

The real injustice is the fact that a movie grossing $326 million dollars cannot afford to look after the rights of their own actors. The theme of the whole damn movie is money and survival in the slums, and the millions of dollars that this movie grossed cannot even trickle down to the actors who made the movie what it is. Hollywood and American consumers have reaped the benefits of demolishing the Third World for commercial consumption and now we are taking advantage of human rights to make movies to win a crappy award made of cheap metal spray painted gold. You can argue that the children physically made money, but it’s simply not enough. Infotainment sources had a field day when they saw “child star put up for sale”, they blew the story out of proportion to make the father look like a scumbag for putting his daughter up for adoption. As a parent, that is the most realistic decision one can make. But we overlook this, we see him as a monster and a fiend when in reality, the Hollywood producers and directors are the ones to blame. We also failed to recognize that this phenomenon happens on a daily basis, we just pay attention when it’s someone we know, all thanks to the wonderful work of infotainment news outlets which fail to report on real news. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this people, Angelina Jolie makes her rounds every month in these impoverished nations to make herself look like a humanitarian. And where do you think she got the child from? I hope the “For Sale” sign wasn’t a dead giveaway.