Shekhar Kapur and Roger Nair condemn Brit tabloid for Slumdog

MUMBAI: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has condemned the recent sting operation done by British tabloid on Slumdog Millionaire child artist Rubina's father.

Kapur writes on his blog, "I just worked with Rubina, the little girl from Slumdog Millionaire - and what a joy she was to work with. Happy and full of laughter, her smile would light up smiles for the whole crew, as she no doubt did for the whole world in Slumdog Millionaire."

"I had been reading about what was going on with her father's alleged attempts to 'sell' her. I was aghast though at the sting operation done by that British Tabloid, which instead of being condemned worldwide is being heralded as a great piece of journalism," he wrote.

Kapur opines that not a single thought was given to the trauma that the little girl would go through with worldwide publicity that her own father was trying to sell her.

He questions, "What was the tabloid trying to do? Trying to push a father to name a price for his daughter's adoption? To go to a poor man in a slum who has spent his life not knowing where the next meal is going to come from, and then dangle a few hundred thousand pounds in front of him to entice and entangle him into a negotiation for the adoption of his daughter? By enticing him to say those words that would make headlines all over the world? How dare they judge and manipulate other people and their moral predicaments from their comfortable colonial point of view. I would rather have them arrested for obscene suggestions and offers than the father for coming to the negotiating table.

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A newspaper (Tabloid is more appropriate) — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Picture- thinks of doing a remarkable stint operation and puts it into play and the rest is history.Rubina's poor ( in every sense of the word) father who has  never seen two square meals a day ,before the little adorable child actress got just enough to eat for a few months for acting in the mega block buster oscar winning film, Slumdog Millionaire which grossed 300 million worldwide.

He was approached and lured into a fancy hotel by someone pretending to be a shiekh and offered $400,000 for putting her up for adoption. This to a man who probably believes that he can never give his daughter the life that the person looking to adopt promised him.


Its a disgusting ploy of a western mindset that Danny Boyle was trying to show in the first place in his film slumdog.Danny actually said while he was here in Toronto that we have to see this film with the Indian eyes and not the western glasses, , what irony!!!

What us (organ harvesting from the third world promoter) "westerners" are makin fun of, is probably a plot of a very emotional and successful Indian film.--Father gives up daughter as the ultimate sacrifice so she can have a better life because he knows he can never give her that life ..and cries at all the major events of her life by watching her from a distance..Wait a minute thats been done in a lot of Indian films.I am getting carried away aren't I.


Still, This is nothing different than and no better than the Dutch buying Manhatten from the natives for 60 guilders (=1000 USD) story where they bought the borough from natives (BTW those natives didn't even own the land and had no right to sell it in any event, but that doesnt stop the colonizers from claiming it from the rightful owners anyway, but thats another story.) .

The British tabloid newspaper — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures — said the father was demanding millions of rupees for the girl.

How convenient; I bet my last penny that the girls father( no clean chit to him either, untill I know  a little more) didn't call this tabaloid or a sheikh that he wants money to "sell"or for putting his daughter for adoption to either of these jokers .Its the tabaloid guys who thought how much FUN it would be to dangle some fake piece of fruit infront of a starving man and watch him run after it and Laugh out loud when he finds out its not edible.

I have two words for this scheming jouranalist and his masters:

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Disgusting Disgusting!!!

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