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The father of Rubina Ali, who plays little Latika in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning movie, has denied a News of the World story that he tried to sell her to a Middle Eastern sheikh for £200,000
Xan Brooks
The money will fund a five-year project to improve living standards for slum children living in the Indian metropolis where the Oscar-winning film was shot
Xan Brooks
20-metre image would have been used as backdrop to dance routine
Staff and agencies
Lucrative pay lures top names to the Indian film market but results have been patchy, say critics
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Rights to Jai Ho at centre of election battle
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire had its origins in professor Sugata Mitra's research in the slums of India
Danny Boyle's film enjoys the biggest box-office bounce since Titanic as two of its young stars adjust to life back in Mumbai
Ben Child
Slumdog Millionaire's child stars return from Los Angeles to a rousing welcome from crowds at Mumbai airport
State housing association gives flats to families of film stars
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Young stars rush to collect autographs despite being the main attraction as India takes pride in sweeping success
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
After weeks of controversy over the film's depiction of life in Mumbai's slums and the paycheques of its child stars, the subcontinent has embraced Danny Boyle's crowdpleaser
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
I've lost count of the anorak-clad sages who tell me that the era of the small, independently financed film is over, writes Nick Fraser
Nick Fraser
The children, part of 40-strong cast and crew attending the oscars, will take their first aeroplane to Hollywood
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Mukul Devichand: The Slumdog Millionaire media frenzy misses the point, we need a proper debate about the future of India's urban poor
Mukul Devichand
Oscar-tipped film's creators accused of paying their child actors paltry sums
Ben Child
Jeremy Seabrook: If the two-dimensional portrayals in Slumdog Millionaire are what pass for gritty realism, what kind of fantasy do we live in?
Jeremy Seabrook
• Slum residents angry over 'offensive' title• Police ordered to guard buildings as critics pledge demonstrations
Matthew Weaver and agencies
A New Delhi high court overturns 2005 federal ban on onscreen smoking after petition by film-maker Mahesh Bhatt
Ben Child
Ian Jack: Here in India, films about poverty used to cause great offence. But not Slumdog Millionaire
Ian Jack
Obituary: Bollywood film-maker whose films were both entertaining and socially challenging
Mark Tully
Amitabh Bachchan voices bitterness on blog over global recognition for Slumdog Millionaire
Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Author Vikas Swarup on Slumdog Millionaire and how the book started taking shape in, well, Golders Green
Stuart Jeffries
Stars who work six days a week, a $10bn turnover - is it any wonder Hollywood is investing in Indian film? By Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks
David Parkinson: Ahsanullah Moni's full-scale replica of the Taj Mahal takes its place in a long tradition of follies built by film-makers who lose their sense of proportion
David Parkinson