Slumdog Millionaire's little Latika is now looking for a decent job

Rubina Ali, the child actress who played the unforgettable role of Latika in the Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, is now 18 and struggling to find a decent job.

Then eight years old, Rubina was plucked from hundreds of India's slum children in 2007 for the role of Latika and and became the centre of attention around the world when the Danny Boyle blockbuster swept eight Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.

Rubina then travelled around the globe, from Delhi to Hong Kong and Taiwan for fashion and stage shows. In 2009, she also travelled to Paris to promote her biography, Slumgirl Dreaming. There were reports that she would be starring in a romantic comedy, Lord Owen’s Lady, with Anthony Hopkins, but that project never materialised.



She continued to live in a slum but then her house burned down in 2011 and she lost all her Oscar memorabilia. She moved to a new house with her father and stepmother.  She distanced herself from him and moved to Nallasopara to live with her birth mother, Khurshid. They didn't get along and she left again. Now she lives independently and is studying Arts in her first year of junior college.

She wants to become an actress in Bollywood and is in the first year of college pursuing a BA degree.

She now lives alone in a sub-urban area, 60 kilometres from Mumbai.

She has refuted a British newspaper's claims that her father had attempted to sell her. She declared that her parents love her very much and that they wouldn't give her up even when a wealthy couple had wanted to adopt her.

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