Slumdog Girl Up For Sale?

Firefly Fan

Shocking story if true.

The young girl staring in "Slumdog Millionaire" was found to be for sale complements of her twisted father.

Being part of an Oscar winning movie can up your asking price in Hollywood. Apparently it can also up your asking price should your father decide to try and sell you.

Rubina Ali, the nine-year-old girl who was featured prominently in the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire," was offered up for sale by her father to undercover reporters working for News of the World, the paper is reporting.

The young child star's asking price was roughly $295,000. According to the paper, the price started off much lower when he first began negotiating the deal.

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dlofnep

Sell her for what exactly? To adopt?

Firefly Fan

dlofnep wrote: »

Sell her for what exactly? To adopt?

Wife to be.

Jesus Wept

$295,000?

Fúck that.

Saibh

Firefly Fan wrote: »

Wife to be.

Not according to the News of the World

In a bid to escape India's real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000.

As he tried to fix the illegal adoption deal, real-life slum dweller Rafiq declared: "We've got nothing out of this film."

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Firefly Fan

Saibh wrote: »

Not according to the News of the World

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Thats good.
Here is hoping though that "adoption" was not just his way of getting around the law of being accused of a sex/wife to be, selling crime.
I mean to be honest, if she was sold off to a bloke for "adoption", in India its very often seen as been sold into a form of household slavery and/or eventually some sort of sex trade outcome.

Background info:
Children as Chattel: Child Labor & Trafficking in India
http://stopchildslavery.com/2007/06/14/children-as-chattel-child-labor-trafficking-in-india/

Also:

Bonded Labor in India
By Devin Finn

Introduction: Types of Widespread Forced Labor

Bonded labor, which is characterized by a long-term relationship between employer and employee, is usually solidified through a loan, and is embedded intricately in India’s socio-economic culture—a culture that is a product of class relations, a colonial history, and persistent poverty among many citizens. Also known as debt bondage, bonded labor is a specific form of forced labor in which compulsion into servitude is derived from debt. Categorized and examined in the scholarly literature as a type of forced labor, bonded labor entails constraints on the conditions and duration of work by an individual. Not all bonded labor is forced, but most forced labor practices, whether they involve children or adults, are of a bonded nature. Bonded labor is most prevalent in rural areas where the agricultural industry relies on contracted, often migrant laborers. However, urban areas also provide fertile ground for long-term bondage. Characterized by a creditor-debtor relationship that a laborer often passes on to his family members, bonded labor is typically of an indefinite duration and involves illegal contractual stipulations. Contracts deny an individual the basic right to choose his or her employer, or to negotiate the terms of his or her contract. Bonded labor contracts are not purely economic; in India, they are reinforced by custom or coercion in many sectors such as the agricultural, silk, mining, match production, and brick kiln industries, among others.

Researchers of bonded labor in India seek to understand its long-standing practices through an examination of contemporary forms of labor coercion, their origins and relationships to poverty and inequality, and implications for policymaking.
Child labor, agricultural debt bondage, and bonded migrant labor are persistent forms of modern slavery that fall under the Indian constitutional definition of forced labor. While child labor and bonded labor in India are typically addressed separately in the literature, many researchers focus on the causes and consequences of pervasive child labor in the world’s largest democracy.

Child laborers face major health and physical risks: they work long hours and are required to perform tasks for which they are physically and developmentally unprepared. Child labor is deeply entrenched as a common practice in many sectors and states, due in part to India’s economic
emphasis on exports in recent years.

According to a current estimate, a quarter of Indian children ages six to fourteen—roughly two hundred million children—are working, and a third of the remaining seventy-five percent are bonded laborers. The largest single employer of children in India is the agricultural sector where an estimated twenty-five million
children are employed; and the second largest employer of Indian children is the service sector where children work in hotels and as household maids. An additional five million Indian children are employed in other labor-intensive industries.

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The current world publicity now from the fathers actions will probably (hopefully) put a stop to this selling of her off.
The Indian government won't want their country yet again to be seen to be condoning these actions of the dad or further tarnishing the countries name when they are currently trying to attract visitors/business to their state

AnonoBoy

Movie was slightly overrated anyways.

Who wants to buy an actor from an overrated movie? :rolleyes:

AnonoBoy

LordChessington wrote: »

I do. Especially is they're 9

Yeah

Jaysus. Didn't know Synper had a second boards account.

Rented Mule

The-Rigger wrote: »

$295,000?

Fúck that.

Sounds like someone took a page out of the Irish handbook.

Ripoff India is up and running.

You could get one hundred African babies for that price if you are willing to drive a bit.

I hear their VAT is only 15% as well.

hussey

Such a rip off

I'm currently buying a african off oxfam for 5 euro a month.

Alcatel

hussey wrote: »

Such a rip off

I'm currently buying a african off oxfam for 5 euro a month.

Does that include delivery?

All joking aside, bit of a twisted story alright.

AckwelFoley

Id never pay that sort of dosh for a 9 year old

Sleipnir

Madonna gets them for free. I wish I were Madonna.....

Hagar

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Movie was slightly overrated anyways.

Who wants to buy an actor from an overrated movie? :rolleyes:

I'd give you a tenner for Michelle Pffeiffer, I'd even go to twenty for Jennifer Connolly.

AnonoBoy

Hagar wrote: »

I'd give you a tenner for Michelle Pffeiffer, I'd even go to twenty for Jennifer Connolly.

Sold.

Ms. Pffeiffer will be in the post this very afternoon Hagar. We're out of Ms. Connolly right now but we hope to be restocked by Friday.

Hagar

Going to PM.

javaboy

Hagar wrote: »

I'd give you a tenner for Michelle Pffeiffer, I'd even go to twenty for Jennifer Connolly.

Jennifer Connolly from Labyrinth of Jennifer Connolly from Blood Diamond? :eek:

Hagar

javaboy wrote: »

Jennifer Connolly from Labyrinth of Jennifer Connolly from Blood Diamond? :eek:

Same girl/woman just 20 years apart. Now if I had a time machine and another €20 could I have both?

Uh oh, she was only 16 in the first movie. :eek: Wanders off to check statute books...

javaboy

Hagar wrote: »

Same girl/woman just 20 years apart. Now if I had a time machine and another €20 could I have both?

Yeah I know. Take a seat. Just take a seat.

Nodin

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Sold.

Ms. Pffeiffer will be in the post this very afternoon Hagar. We're out of Ms. Connolly right now but we hope to be restocked by Friday.

Your attitude to women is disgusting. They aren't just products to be posted off.



You should send them via courier.......its less bumpy.....tends to leave them in better mood when you open the crate.

Fighting Irish

You obviously don't get out much

Firefly Fan wrote: »

Shocking story if true.

The young girl staring in "Slumdog Millionaire" was found to be for sale complements of her twisted father.


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Turd Ferguson

$295,000...wow. I bought 17 Chinese kids for 50 euro and a mule. Money well spent to be honest. They've proper pimped out my PC and I'll never have to buy sneakers again

ScumLord

None of you seem to realise that her autographs are worth 10c a pop and appearances at parties up to €10 an hour. In India that's allot of money it might not sound like it but I've heard she can do over 6000 autographs a day. You have to take that into account when you compare her to other 3rd world children who could maybe only make you a designer pair of jeans.

Mr.Lizard

300k for an adorable little kid is too much when you consider you can pick them up off the street for free (so long as no one is looking).

AckwelFoley

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

is too much when you consider you can pick them up off the street for free (so long as no one is looking).

not so easy on our streets..kids are aware to stranger danger.

Nodin

snyper wrote: »

not so easy on our streets..kids are aware to stranger danger.

"stranger" is an odd last name for ye to have....

Turd Ferguson

Firefly Fan wrote: »

Shocking story if true.

The young girl staring in "Slumdog Millionaire" was found to be for sale complements of her twisted father.


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I blame video games and Marilyn Manson

Terry

Hagar wrote: »

I'd give you a tenner for Michelle Pffeiffer, I'd even go to twenty for Jennifer Connolly.

Don't let ecksor know.