Placing a price tag on a Slumdog.
Slumdog Millionaire hit North American box offices somewhere at the end of 2008, the acclaim was instant and it continues to reverberate through sticky multiplex corridors, dimly lit coffee shops, between the station calls on the metro, and back to the slum where it was set. Hitting its mark at the top of the worldwide box office and on the receiving end of multiple nods from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, the producers of Slumdog Millionaire truly had a gem in their hands. Though the method with which they benefited, had to take from others.
Most recently one of the Slumdog children, Rubina Ali, has been put up for adoption by her father, letting her go to the highest bidder. All in the honour of "what's best for me, my family, and Rubina's future," was what he offered to an undercover bidder.
Do you want to know how much an "Oscar child" goes for these days? 200,000 pounds, at least that's what it inflated to after word of a wealthy Middle Eastern family's interest. 200,000 pounds for Rubina to be out of the slums and indirectly so her extended family would be free of financial bondage.
It's deathly apparent that the months that follow the Academy Awards and as a new season of blockbusters begin, that these children would be there when the dust lifts; having seen better, knowing better, and left wanting better. Their pockets barely hold the change that remains of the couple hundred pounds that they were paid for production and their families are running out of local and foreign press agents to extort their presence to.
After scrutiny and amid the company of the word 'exploitation' being thrown around, Danny Boyle and Christian Coleson, the producer, were said to have set up trust funds for the, otherwise illiterate, children's education. Though these are in the interest of the children, they still live in the slums that held them before the camera crews, the Coca Cola bottles, and a funny looking British man made their appearance. While it is ultimately the family's prerogative to do with Rubina's future, in pursuit of cultural status, profit, acclaim.. What is a child's worth?
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Most recently one of the Slumdog children, Rubina Ali, has been put up for adoption by her father, letting her go to the highest bidder. All in the honour of "what's best for me, my family, and Rubina's future," was what he offered to an undercover bidder.
Do you want to know how much an "Oscar child" goes for these days? 200,000 pounds, at least that's what it inflated to after word of a wealthy Middle Eastern family's interest. 200,000 pounds for Rubina to be out of the slums and indirectly so her extended family would be free of financial bondage.
It's deathly apparent that the months that follow the Academy Awards and as a new season of blockbusters begin, that these children would be there when the dust lifts; having seen better, knowing better, and left wanting better. Their pockets barely hold the change that remains of the couple hundred pounds that they were paid for production and their families are running out of local and foreign press agents to extort their presence to.
After scrutiny and amid the company of the word 'exploitation' being thrown around, Danny Boyle and Christian Coleson, the producer, were said to have set up trust funds for the, otherwise illiterate, children's education. Though these are in the interest of the children, they still live in the slums that held them before the camera crews, the Coca Cola bottles, and a funny looking British man made their appearance. While it is ultimately the family's prerogative to do with Rubina's future, in pursuit of cultural status, profit, acclaim.. What is a child's worth?
For more reading:
Original article, ONTD.
Similar article, ONTD. I like to read the comments, okay?
Other controversies that the film is wrapped up in, Wiki