Mumbai, June 14: Two years after “Slumdog Millionaire” created history at the Oscars, child artists from a Mumbai slum area Azharuddin Mohammed Shaikh and Rubina Ali Qureshi have been roped in a Hollywood flick.
Shaikh and Rubina will each be paid 1,000 pounds on a daily basis for 20-25 days of shooting, their contract said.
The film, “Lord Owen’s Lady”, is being produced by Dragons Productions (Wales) Ltd, based in London and Cardiff, Rubina’s publicist and agent Dinesh Dubey said.
Dubey said, “The shooting for the movie, for which Indian actor Rohini Hattangadi and some other kids from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ have been signed on, will start in early 2011.”
Earlier Hattangadi, a well-known, played the role of Kasturba Gandhi in the Oscar winning “Gandhi” (1982) by Sir Richard Attenborough. Ben Kingsley played the title role.
The flick will also feature Hollywood star Anthony Hopkins as the father of Lord Owen, a reckless heir who falls in love with a stunning Indian woman.
“Azharuddin and Rubina shall be playing the role of Hopkin’s grandchildren in the movie,” Dubey said.
The movie will be shot in Dubai, Wales and other locations.
–Agencies–