What do you call the space between two houses?” Dev Patel asks Freida Pinto, to which he himself replies, before she can get a word in, “Ali! Get it? Alley? Ali?” he goofs, to which Freida throws a playful punch at him, and he nearly falls into the swimming pool. Dev’s not your everyday musclebound [...]

Young and talented Freida Pinto, the lead actress in award winning Slumdog Millionaire feels that she is living in a different world these days. She spoke to CNN-IBN about the movie, awards and her career. CNN-IBN: So many festivals, nominations awards – How is life after Slumdog…? Freida Pinto: It’s unbelievably unreal. I cannot believe [...]

Freida Pinto, who won over audiences across the globe with her performance in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, has revealed that she once turned down a Bollywood role after a lusty director demanded her to strip off for a sex scene. The 25-year-old from Mumbai was asked to bare all – even though the director had no intention [...]

Danny Boyle’s masterpiece Slumdog Millionaire has sprung from nowhere to become one of the main Oscar contenders this year and has already reaped excellent rewards at the American box office. The feat is especially miraculous when you consider that this Indian-based tale of love and survival has a largely unknown cast. Making her cinematic debut [...]

This year’s Golden Globes Awards was a celebration of global cinema. When the self-described King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, stood onstage and accepted his Best Picture Award for Slumdog Millionaire, handed to him by Tom Cruise, the sweep was complete. Slumdog Millionaire also brought home the gold for director Danny Boyle who beat out [...]

There are debuts and then there are dream debuts. Model turned actress Freida Pinto definitely belongs to the latter category. After six months of auditions the actress was selected to play the role of Latika in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The actress has been winning internal accolades all over the world and most recently won [...]

Everything about Slumdog Millionaire reads like a fairytale. There’s the story (a street orphan on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? finds that flashbacks of his crazy, episodic life provide each answer); the shambolic shoot in the slums of Mumbai, often without a permit; the surprising success after its US backer went under (picking up [...]