Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is flying to India to rescue child

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is flying to India to rescue child stars Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, it has emerged.

Both the child stars’ were rendered homeless after Mumbai authorities torn down their shanties following a slum clearance drive.

Boyle fears that lives of Azharuddin, 10, and Rubina, 9, are spiralling downwards despite their Oscars success, reports the Sun.

He had set up a 500,000 pounds trust to help them in education and give them apartments.

However, a source said: “Their lives do not appear to be any better.”

UPDATE: Rubina’s father walks out on Danny Boyle saying, “It has been five to six months,” Rafiq Qureshi told the AP. “Everything is available in Mumbai if you have the money. If you really want to get us a house you can get us a house in two days.”

Also watch a deleted scene from his hit movie www.empireonline.com

This sequence forms part of the childhood flashbacks, wherein we see Jamal (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar at this stage, later of course Dev Patel) and his brother Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail) making a living as thieves under the bleachers of the opera at Agra.

It will be included in the DVD out June 1st.