Nine-year-old Slumdog star to publish autobiography

Published: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:37:47

Rubina Ali, one of the child stars of hit film Slumdog Millionaire, is set to publish her autobiography at the age of nine, it has been revealed. The young cast member, who was taken from an Indian slum near Mumbai to play a leading role in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, will have her memoirs published by UK book distributors TransWorld. The publication will tell the story of Rabina's young life from her days as a small child in India to the moment director Danny Boyle selected her for a part in his movie, which also features Bollywood mega-stars Anil Kapoor and Irfan Khan.

"Rubina tells her own incredible story, from playing marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar in Mumbai, to dancing along to the Bollywood films her family and she would watch on their old television set," a statement from the publisher said. "Rubina brings alive a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, and shows us her home, a wooden shack with a tarpaulin roof, where she grew up with her beloved father and siblings." The book will be titled Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars and is scheduled to hit shelves in both the UK and the US by mid-July.

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