Slumgirl Dreaming
Rubina's Journey to the Stars
My name is Rubina Ali. I don't know when my birthday is, and nor does my father, but I do know that I am nine years old.
Young Rubina is a one-in-a-million star. Plucked from among five hundred slumkids who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, she saw her fairy-tale dream of stardom come true. Now that she has stepped into the limelight, what will life hold for a young girl from the Mumbai slums?
Rubina tells her own incredible story, bringing to life a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, where she played marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar. She introduces her beloved father, a hardworking rickshaw puller, and her siblings. And then Rubina…
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September 8, 2009Rubina Ali is an Indian actress who played the youngest version of Latika in the multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008) for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Slumgirl Dreaming
Rubina Ali, in collaboration with Anne Berthod and Divya DugarAnne Berthod is a journalist in France. She is the coauthor of Slumgirl Dreaming.
Slumgirl Dreaming
Rubina Ali, in collaboration with Anne Berthod and Divya DugarDivya Dugar is a journalist in India. She is the coauthor of Slumgirl Dreaming.