No, you didn't read that header wrong. Nine-year-old Rubina Ali, who played Latika in the Oscar-dominating Slumdog Millionaire, is up for sale by her father, Rafiq Qureshi. Rafiq is asking around $400,000 for her, mainly because his family is still living in the slums and they're frustrating they haven't really seen any benefits to the success of the movie. Rafiq is hoping a rich family will want to adopt Rubina, but will offer up some compensation, too. Rubina's uncle says that "she's not just a normal child, she's an Oscar child!"
You gotta think it's pretty bad when you're trying to just straight up cash in on your daughter's fame. At the same time, you also have to think he's a huge douchebag if he's willing to just straight up sell his daughter.
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