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The busy road surrounding the train station of Bandra (East), Mumbai, India, is photographed from a rooftop. In the nearby slum area, child actors Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina Ali, playing the roles of 'young Salim' and 'young Latika' in the movie Slumdog Millionaire, winner of 8 Oscar Academy Awards in December 2008, still live with their families. Various promises were made to lift the two young actors from poverty and slum-life but as of the end of May 2009 anything is yet to happen. Rubina's house was recently demolished with no notice as it lay on land owned by the Maharashtra train authorities and she is now permanently living with her uncle's family in a home a stone-throw away in the same slum. Azharuddin's home too was demolished in the past two weeks, as it happens every year in his case, because the concrete walls were preventing local authorities to clear a drain passing right behind it. As usual, his father is looking into restoring the walls as soon as the work on the drain has been completed.
