Slumdog Millionaire's Boyle offers homes for child actors

After a much-deserved trip to Disney World, the Slumdog Millionaire kids might get one last treat: a nice apartment for themselves and their families. According to The Daily Mail, director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson have offered to buy apartments for Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Ali, who play young Salim and Letika respectively.

The $40,000 apartments will help the child actors' families to get out of the slums and have clean running water and electricity. This decision follows the intense criticism toward the director for allegedly exploiting the actors and not giving them the compensation they deserved.

To prevent the apartments from being sold by their families for cash, the residences will be placed in a trust for the children until they turn 18. The trust will also include a driver that will drive the kids to and from school for the next eight years.

"These are bricks and mortar flats," Boyle said. "They will have electricity, running water and good sanitation. They will still be close to their friends and extended family. Their community is very important to them, and they don’t want to move too far away from them."

In addition, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority in Mumbai have also offered to buy new homes for the child actors in congratulations for their hard work and awards.