Mumbai slums pulse to Bollywood beats at win

CHILDREN broke into Bollywood dance numbers and crowds cheered in the lanes of a teeming slum as their hometown heroes nabbed Hollywood’s highest honours.

Two of the child actors in Slumdog Millionaire were plucked from a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mumbai to star in the rags-to-riches tale that stormed the Academy Awards.

The actors, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, and Rubina Ali, 9, were flown to Los Angeles for the ceremony, leaving their friends back home to gawk, beam, shout and dance in celebration.