A celebrity headline with a difference and a worrying headline, and a sign that the stars that appeared in the film SlumDog Millionaire were pretty real as Rubina Ali who is only nine years of age and stars in the multi Oscar award winning film has recently been made homeless in Mumbai along with the rest of her family. Officials turned up in bulldozers and cleared the shanty down in which she still lived to make way for an extension of the Bhandra East Railway Station according to the Free Paper Metro.

Photo below of Rubina Ali (centre) playing with neighbours at the lime Juice Vendors Shop at her previous home in Garib Nagar on April 22 in the slums of Bandra, Mumbai before the clearing.

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This photo and news is in stark contrast to her appearance along with the rest of the stars on the red carpet at the Oscars earlier this year. Her father Rafiq Qureshi refused to let his home be destroyed when  confronted by the bulldozers and was beaten which resulted in him going to hospital. Last week the other SlumDog star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail had his home in the similar area also demolished in the same manner.

Part of the perils of Shanty Town living not only in India but around the world as Shanty Town legal rights are pretty much non existent, and even these SlumDog stars are not immune from Shanty Town clearings!

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