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The charity revealed that the young actors and their families had issued a series of demands they expected Boyle, who made his name with Trainspotting, to meet. During the meetings, Boyle was asked to provide a car for Azharuddin Ismail, who played the title character as a young boy. And co-star Rubina Ali wants a further £30,000 to add to the £50,000 her family has already been given for an apartment. Both actors are also reported to be demanding £35,000 of health insurance for their entire families. [ read more ]

The home, more properly described as a shack or a lean-to with a tarpaulin roof and situated in the Garib Nagar slums, was destroyed by bulldozers Thursday in order to make room for a drainage path in preparation for the oncoming monsoon season. Approximately 30 more homes were destroyed along with Ismail's, whose previous home was also destroyed in similar fashion while filming for Slumdog Millionaire was still taking place. Those whose homes were destroyed were given no advance warning. Ismail's mother told the press, "We didn't even get a chance to remove our belongings. We are now left with no roof over our head tonight and the monsoon will begin in a few weeks. We have lived here for 15 years. I don't know what we will do next."

The 10-year-old actor, who had been asleep in the home when the bulldozers came to demolish it, told reporters, "A police officer took a bamboo stick to hit me, and I was frightened." [ read more ]