What Kind of Flat SlumDog Millioanire Kids will Get from Danny Boyle

What Kind of Flat SlumDog Millioanire Kids will Get from Danny Boyle

After "Slumdog Millionaire" won for best picture and earned over $162 million worldwide, pictures of some of the stars living in squalor in the slums of India appeared online. But director Danny Boyle is now doing something about this.

Boyle has revealed that he and producer Christian Colson will purchase $30,000 apartments for Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Rubina Ali and their families. Plus he has taken time out of his busy scheduled to spend some quality time with the young stars.

"These are bricks and mortar flats. They will have electricity, running water and good sanitation," Boyle told Daily Mail. "They will still be close to their friends and extended family. Their community is very important to them, and they don't want to move too far away from them."

Colson said: "The way Azharuddin is living now is substandard. We were told his home was razed a few months ago, and wired money over immediately. The family gave that money to a broker, who promised to find them a new place to live, but has simply disappeared with the cash. We realized just sending money is not the answer and have evolved our plans over the past few weeks. The families are not equipped to cope with that sort of money."

He continued: "We can't buy the properties outright and give them to them, because in all honesty they will sell them. What we are doing is to acquire the flats for them, near the community where they fit in. They will be held in trusts and ownership will only be released to the parents when the kids turn 18 and have completed their education."

The film company has also agreed to pay for a rickshaw driver to take the children to and from school every day for the next eight years – to ensure they attend.