Slumdog Millionaire Star Rubina Ali OFFERED FOR SALE By Her Father

News Of The World:

THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.

In a bid to escape India's real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000.

As he offered the shocking deal to the News of the World's undercover fake sheik this week, Rafiq declared: "I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future."

Read the whole story: News Of The World

Comments

[blueberryhill]

India has some issues. Poor child, i would adopt if i had the money. It is wrong for girls to be treated this way.

[momorune]

This is a cruel and stupid prank played by NOTW on this family. It is ENTRAPMENT people! They went and made the offer and then printed it as if the father himself came up with it. This guy has heard about Madonna and Angelina Jolie and thinks his kid is going to live a life far beyond what he can give her. The NOTW are just ABUSING her and her family!!! This is not journalism. It is a crime.

[weatherwaxx]

Yeah? What would you say if someone offered to buy your kid?

I don't know about you, but given what happens to girls in the Middle East, my answer would not be "what'll you give me."

Read what this guy already got. He's profiteering.

I hope somebody starts a fund to get that poor kid out of the control of that bloody pimp.

[gsc 99]

It is obvious you have not even read the story. ADD is bad for kids and its worse for adults.

The actual question you should ask is:

What would you say to a foreigner who says, I want to adopt your girl and hey I will throw in a cool 200Ks for you in it. You might say yes. That is the gist of the story

These Biritsh tabloid jornalists went in witha storyline in their haed just needes to sill-in the script

[LiberalBuzz]

Uh right. Friends of the father by any chance? They had already HEARD she was up for sale and went to check it out for themselves.

IT was very good investigative journalism.

[zanzig]

I don't know the facts in this case, but I must say I have a hard time equating "investigative journalism" with News of the World.

[BillyT]

And all of you idiots fell for the cheerful message of the movie.

The film was a fake!! Exploitation for profit by the Brits over India, once again.

It was just another example of the Brits coming to Mumbai to once again take advantage of the cheap labor of the slumdogs and leaving them with nothing.

[punkindmb]

What would he have done to feed his family if she hadn't been in a movie? He would have had to make do with what he had. And why is someone who can't feed the children he has, still having more children? Cripes!

[brooklyncitizen]

No. He would have still sold her.In India poor children are customarily sold into marriages or prostitution by their parents.

[Rohit Goyal]

again misinformed non-sense...your comment suggests all poor Indian's sell their children....their are 100's of millions of poor Indians and I a very small minority undertakes this...your comment suggests selling children is like an established social practise

[vishix]

Please provide the link with a study and stats on this. Or is this your opinion?

[adey]

Waaay worse than charging "expenses" to adoptive parents. It really DOES cost over a grand to be pregnant for 9 months.

[RespectiLife]

We need to understand firstly the meaning - inside this ancient culture - of this father behavior. May be, in the 'so called' occident it does not make sense but we need to consider their culture. let's walk on their shoes firts.

[adey]

What??? And miss an opportunity to pass judgement???

Seriously--thanks for the post.

[DumbDad]

Eminently reasonable. It sounds rather a bit like the equivalent of a dowry price for an arranged marriage.

[adey]

Which have a higher success rate than marriages for love.

[gsc 99]

Well, no wonder Yanks have poor math skills.

See statistically, arranged marriages have a 50% chance of success since they are "arranged." On the other hand the falling in love and I know what is right for me approach and Live in etc should have a better chance of success, right? Why is American dovorce rate more than 50%?

your rethoric doesn't measure up to reality

[offred]

YOU DON'T SELL YOUR CHILDREN TO MAKE A PROFIT.

[gsc 99]

You go offred!

Americans should teach Indians about culture

- No selling of children and slaves.
- No forced labor to be used for railroads like the Chinese.
- No segregation camps for colored people.
- Rights of women, who couldn't even vote untill mid 20th century
- No torture
- No illegal invasion of foreign countries
- No illegal land grab of natives

[Montgriz]

No, in Utah they marry them...

[zanzig]

No you occasionally make a loss.

[offred]

For all her father knows, he selling her into a life of being turned into a sexual slave for some middle aged pervert, or some domestic slave who gets slapped around by the woman in the house.

Arranged marriage contracts don't guarantee that the pervert who bought the child bride is going to wait until the child turns 18 to force marital relations on her.

[adamsmith3]

Selling a child is wrong no matter what border it is done within. There are some morals that are not relative.

[gsc 99]

I agree selling of cchildren is bad. why does it happen in USA? Atleast in India they are poor. What is your excuse? See link below 50K kids and girls traded annualy into sex trade in USA. Explain that first and we will discuss poor people "selling" their kids later

http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm

[DallasDon]

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[tb92]

We should be focusing on the fact that many people live in such horrible conditions that selling a child seems like a good idea. If he believes that she would get a better life out of the deal, and that he would also be able to care for his other kids, then maybe he truly believed that this was the right thing to do. Is the other option to just let the whole family continue to suffer? It's horrible that anyone should ever face such a choice. And yet it happens all the time. While in the US, we waste food and money without a second thought. Very few of us will ever understand what true poverty is. We should be grateful. And we should try to help those who are less fortunate.

[impatient]

Oh please.

This man has used what money did become immediately available to him to attend to his own needs first. Fine, he needed medical attention.

But NOW he is angry that the apartment being constructed for him in Kerala, the riviera of India will not be complete fast enough (in one year) or that his daughter didn't benefit adequately from the movie.

I'm the biggest bleeding heart liberal ever, but this guy just smacks of selfish opportunism. When does he say anything about his kids? Ever? I don't get the feeling he is being torn apart by his family's suffering.....

[adamsmith3]

blah blah blah.....or the father could just be a cr.appy dad who wants to make a lot of money and not take care of his child.

[tb92]

He COULD be. How do you know? Do you know this man? Have you lived in his city? Do you understand his culture? Or do you only know what has been written in the entertainment section of an American newspaper? It's so easy to judge when you've never had to make these kinds of choices. But ignorance and arrogance is a dangerous combination. Many children have died because Americans assumed that they knew the right thing without bothering to really learn about the rest of the world.

I think selling a child is wrong. I am so fortunate to live in a place where I can think that safely. I won't presume that anyone who choses differently is necessarily selfish. Meanwhile, there are plenty of opportunities to help the poor. Help if you can.

[commentator101]

The real villains here are the producers. In some kind of self-indulgent, naive, take-only-pictures/leave-only-footprints they imagine they are doing these children a favor by providing enough funds for future education and a maybe-improvement in housing, but where the children still have to live in slums.

The film is nominated for Oscars and the producers "graciously" fly the children to Hollywood. How wonderful? And aren't all we rich westerners so swell even taking notice of such abject poverty.

Then, right after, it's back to the slums, where the kids could be subject to kidnapping for ransom, or a physical attack by someone driven by envy, or to make a local name, not even to mention the much higher mortality rate they face simply by being in a slum. At best they are resented. They would forever be "better" than someone else.

A much more enlightened approach would be to give them the money to have a comfortable, but not ostentatious house and life in a secure, developed, middle-class enclave in Mumbai. The producers can claim they are not "spoiling" the children by doing it their way, but the children have already been "changed", now they are also abandoned.

So the father does what most anyone in his neighborhood would do and has done and what might (but nt necessarily) could end up better for his daughter if the home is well to do and secure. And we in the west say "How terrible!"

[Virginia Wai]

This is cloud Co Co Land speak, the producer went there to make a movie, he did not went there to change the world.
He showed some pretty uncomfortable facts of life, if the movie had not been a hit, we would not have heard anything about this; as it happen, it did make money.
My question is - do you expect an employer to take care of you for the rest of your life after working on a successful project for 1 month?
The child's father took her for audition, he got paid the equivalent of 4 years of his earning, now that he wants more......
I think you are blaming the wrong person, HE is responsible for his children and HE is the exploitor; he see his daughter as a pay check that's all.
There are millions of children living in slums in India and blaming the movie producer is not helping them one bit.

[gsc 99]

Infact, what you say is La La land trash talk

You can't have it both ways. the movie director was British and it is not even an issue he paid whom for five year earnings, you have no idea what normal earnings are in India.

The so-called undercover sting operators were also trasy Brits from a tabloid.

It would be quiet amusing for the fact that you are trying to defend a Tabloid. There is no dearth of smack talking ignorants people

[impatient]

All true. I agree with most of what you've said.

Exxcept the producers are going to realize profits in excess of a billion dollars for this movie. If I were they, I would give the kids more money. Nt the parents. I would establish trust funds with money managers. I'd see to it that they had a reasonable monthly living allowance and guarantee the kids' education.

If those were American kids, they'd have gotten either a percentage or an equity wage, way more than what these kids got.

[strawberryjulius]

To be fair, the producers set-up a trust fund for all of the children in the film. They did so because the did not want the parents of these actors to take the money that their children had earned. If this man would sell his daughter, do you doubt for a moment that he would take her earnings as well?

[impatient]

Not exactly. They set up a fiund to pay for educaitonal expenses and they arranged to buy them apartments. no trust fund though.

[DumbDad]

and if she gets adopted for big bucks by a pair of Log Cabin Republicans, we'll have a story worthy of the National Enquirer

[alexis d]

Again, this stinks of a setup. I believe the father when he says that's what it was.

[javaman]

well, after all she is a movie star now. She will fetch a higher price!

[streak of rin tin tin]

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[adey]

My patience? Hey! You're cute!

[AurigaRa]

the slums of Mumbai where children are treated a commodites...

Guess her dad feels HE is important enough that he needs to sell his daughter in order to make mone to take care of himself and his family. So what is she, chopped liver? If he doens't value his own child then WHAT is of value?

Thanks Bud for making America sound a little better this week.

[CrzyRussell]

In their culture chopped liver is one step above women.

[SColbert]

And are you in India? Please don't judge Indian culture, if you have no idea what you are talking about. What you see in the Western media about India isn't true.

[vishix]

Do you know anything about "their culture"? Sounds like you just like making up clever sounding lines to get a quick emotional response.

[gsc 99]

Lets do this. We will call it a "sting" operation by citizen journalist.

Someone call Octo mom and offer $200K to her for one of her child's adoption.
I am presuming she will not only agree like the poor Dad in this case but she might actually go on Oprah and in addition call a press conference.

All that would be ok. because she is an America but god forbid that happens in a country like India.
99.9% of the Yanks handing out platitudes and condescending comments will simply disappear.

Compound that with the wide spread ignorance about Indian culture and caste system you have a new movie right there

[steveRB]

So you are defending the caste system? What is good about it?

[adey]

Let's start with It's honest. We have a huge nasty one here, we just pretend we don't.

[gsc 99]

Good to see someone defend the Octo mom. What is good about what she is doing?

[SColbert]

For goodness sake, I hardly think this person is defending the caste system. The caste system doesn't exist in India anymore! Its more of a class system or a skin color based system which the US also has. So, India and the US not so different. Thats what the person is trying to point out. Every time India is mentioned, does not mean that ignorant comments about the Indian people must be made.

[weatherwaxx]

You'd lose your bet, Sunshine. A lot of folks have expressed disgust and anger at the way that woman is exploiting her kids. I hope the state steps in and gets some of them into foster care.

I'm curious, though -- do you think it's okay that this man is willing to sell his little girl to some unknown foreigner?

[gsc 99]

Your comments show you have not read this story, just the headlines.

Get your facts right first and we can discuss. This story originates from the same tabloid that run stories about Alien abductions. From alien abduction they are moving on to alien adoption. They are framing it as selling.