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After a high drama, Mahatma Gandhi’s five personal items, including the iconic round eye glasses, finally went under the hammer and were bought for USD 1.8 million by Indian businessman

Here we go again for the 2010 Oscars. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers.

Jai ho and ‘Slumdog’ have not only ruled the Oscars but have also emerged as the top ‘HollyWords’ that influenced the English language most in 2008.‘Jai ho’ Oscar winning original score composed by A R Rahman from Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and the word ‘Slumdog’, from the same film, that was used to describe young slum-dwellers in Mumbai were named the top two Hollywood words of 2008 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM) in its 6th Annual Survey..

Freida Pinto, the star in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, has leaped ahead of her Indian rivals to become the highest paid actress in Bollywood, a news report said on Thursday.

Forget the Oscars, the biggest Indian winners of the Slumdog Millionaire fairytale are two of the film's child actorsplucked from the shanty towns of Mumbai, after it emerged they are to be given "free homes" by the state government.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan felicitated Oscar winner Resul Pookutty of the 'Slumdog Millionaire' fame here last evening. The function was organised by Western India Motion Picture and TV Soundngineers Association. Pookutty, who hails from Kerala's Kollam district, shared the Sound Mixing Oscar with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke for his work in the Danny Boyle's film "Slumdog Millionaire".

After Azharuddin Mohammad, another Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali's home too was razed by civic authorities on Wednesday.Read story in detail by clicking on the link.

With less than a week to go before the Academy Awards “Slumdog Millionaire” has racked up three more major film awards.
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The dream run seems to be over for Azaharuddin Mohammed Ismail, the child star of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire with his father slapping him for refusing to give interviews to media.The 10-year-old child, who was plucked from a Mumbai slum to play the young Salim in the multiple-Oscar-winning movie, has been living amid constant media scrutiny since his return home from Los Angeles...