"Slumdog" child stars miss out on the movie millions

[rainbow4321]

Somehow, the phrase "more than three times the average annual salary an adult in their neighbourhood would receive" just doesn't seem right. So they are using a slum neighborhood "salary" average to justify what the kids were paid??



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/4347472/Poor-parents-of-Slumdog-millionaire-stars-say-children-were-exploited.html

Their roles in Slumdog Millionaire have won them international acclaim and seen them rub shoulders with the film’s glamorous stars and its British director. Their roles in Slumdog Millionaire have won them international acclaim and seen them rub shoulders with the film’s glamorous stars and its British director.


The film’s British director, Danny Boyle, has spoken of how he set up trust funds for Rubina and Azharuddin and paid for their education. But it has emerged that the children, who played Latika and Salim in the early scenes of the film, were paid less than many Indian domestic servants.

Rubina was paid £500 for a year’s work while Azharuddin received £1,700, according to the children's parents.

However a spokesman for the film’s American distributors, Fox Searchlight, disputed this saying the fees were more than three times the average annual salary an adult in their neighbourhood would receive. They would not disclose the actual sum.

[RB TexLa]

1. Wouldn't the brit have to consider the Indians to be human beings, I'd bet he was forced to pay them

at all.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Exploiters. nt

[Earth_First]

3. £500 = 34,617.30 INR = 708.3450 USD

Am I doing this right?!

[madrchsod]

4. no wonder the indians threw out the british...or did they

[Zywiec]

5. Well if someone came to my neighborhood and said

they could pay me three times the average annual salary of the adults living in my neighborhood. I would take the money!

:shrug:

[closeupready]

7. Yeah, if that's the case, I don't have a problem with it.

great movie, by the way.

[serrano2008]

6. If they weren't happy with it, why didn't they ask for more money sooner?

Or why did they do it at all? I dont' work on a project or job unless I'm happy with the compensation beforehand. I don't think these people were held against their will, as slaves to do the work and accept less money.

Instead they should be grateful for the opportunity to be in the movie and use it for their advantage to try to get in other movies. Now other directors will just think they're complainers.

[closeupready]

8. They'll be in more films. They did such a great job in this one,

They will have other chances, even if they are complaining now. And frankly, you can't really blame them too much, given how successful the film has been.

[Greyhound]

9. What a revelation, the film industry is run by scum. n/t