All nine actors who play the three main characters in Slumdog Millionaire will be attending the Oscars, even the two youngest ones, whom some have alleged were mistreated by the filmmakers.
Also attending will be Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, and Rubina Ali, 9, both of whom were plucked from their homes in a Mumbai slum by director Danny Boyle and his team. The trip will be their first on an airplane and their first out of the country, relatives said.
“I’m very happy that I’m going to the Oscars,” Rubina said in her home Friday, hours before she was to leave for the United States. “My friends are saying, ‘your fate is so good.’”
“I’m not scared,” said Rubina, who will be traveling with her uncle. “I’m going to go and take a lot of pictures and show them to people over here.” [AP]
Oh sure, it’s all about fate. See what this movie has done, you idiots? Why go to school, right kids? Clearly you can learn all you need from living on the street, and if you’re ever meant to raise youself out of a life of poverty, destiny will take care of everything. Anyway, I know I said I hated this stupid collection of clichés that everyone’s calling best picture, but I’m happy for these kids. When you spend your childhood wearing contact lenses made of fly eggs and crying yourself to sleep on a pillow made of a sibling’s bloated corpse… well, at that point it’s fair to say you’ve earned your giftbag full of iPods and Restylane.
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Dollars to donuts they sit these two next to Angelina Jolie and she adopts them before they run the “In Memory of..” montage.
SLUMPUPPIES WILL GO TO THE OSCARS
And a magic carpet riiiiiiiiide……..
“I’m going to go and take a lot of pictures and show them to people over here.”
With what camera, Punjab Rockefeller?
The Academy has reserved great seats for them backstage next to a shoeshine kit.
Prediction: They get off the plane, look around, cry, and demand to be taken back to a normal city.
MMM MMM MMM, I do love me a side of slumpuppies with my chicken fingers at Long John Silver’s!
I’m looking forward to Penn punching one of them for making eye contact.
“So Azharuddin, who are you wearing?”
“Well, I used the skin of my cousing Rajib to make my shoes…”
Even money says they wear giant condoms and perform a dance on stage with the Jonas Brothers…
Also, I guarantee one of them drinks out of a toilet. Get it because they are dogs, live in subhuman squalor and won’t know any better.
You’ll never be able to get that curry smell out of the oscar if they win
The good news is that with the 100 rupees they’re bringing to America they can live like kings.
Now I have “A Whole New World” stuck in my fucking head……..
This is actually pretty good timing, because ya know, Rourke’s dog just died.
A kid named Mohammed Ismail should be welcomed with open arms by Hollywood.
they’ll shit themselves when the find out we sell toothpaste in corner stores.
What they didn’t tell the kids is that because of the economy the academy is going to save some money by spray painting them gold and giving them out.
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
GODDAMMIT ulPay!
{throws shoes, skulks off humming}
Or where to go
Or say we’re only dreaming
Maybe with them actually in the U.S. I can finally get some customer service out of Dell.
Banner pic: That little girl (?) totally just gay her little bro a fuzzy musket.
Joan Rivers: So who are you wearing darling?
Rubina Ali: I found this shirt in the dumpster behind 7-11.
No malnutritioned poverty stricken Indian kids wear harmed(or paid) in the making of this movie.
Fruede was a dick.
-e fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!!
What about the Nazis who can’t read? Where’s THEIR ticket to the Oscars?
Are….are those seriously pots and pans on the shelves in that pic. Jesus Christ….even in their glamorous Oscar edition magazine photo shoot they got Indians doing manual labor.
These kids should’ve went to the Grammys as well, just to show the confused look on their faces when “Paper Planes” turned into “Swagger Like Us”.
lets not get too excited about the slumpuppies coming to the Oscars, they still have to fly “Air India” to get here……..that puts their chances at 50/50.
I can’t wait to see the little boy stand up in his chair during the program and piss down Dakota Fanning’s neck.
First time on a plane, huh? Guess they aren’t counting all their “holy training” exercises with the “special” heavy shoes?
The greatest aspect of these kids coming to America? Everyone else in their family gets one extra sip of fresh water that day.
after getting on the plane in mumbai and getting off at LAX they’ll think they’ve been swindled into a 15hr circular pattern only to land in mumbai again……….the only give away will be that there isn’t any gatorade in the mumbai tea shops.
“both of whom were plucked from their homes in a Mumbai slum by director Danny Boyle and his team.”
I hope this is an extra on the DVD. There’s something I love about kids, nets, and tranquilizers.
First time on a plane, huh? Guess they aren’t counting all their “holy training” exercises with the “special” heavy shoes?