For ‘Slumdog’ Star, a ‘Slumgirl’ Biography

There are few 9-year-olds whose lives would merit an entire book, but Rubina Ali Qureshi, below, a young star of the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” may be the exception. On Friday, Transworld Publishers in London said that it would publish the life story of Rubina, who was recruited from a Mumbai slum for the Academy Award-winning film, in a book called “Slumgirl Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars,” The Associated Press reported. Since the release of the movie, Rubina has accumulated enough material for a second book: a British tabloid said her father had tried to offer her for adoption in exchange for money (the police in Mumbai said they could not find evidence of this), and her family’s…

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