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Anil Kapoor keen to get 'Slumdog' kid's sale story clear.


Byline: ANI

Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor is desperate to get back to India to investigate reports that his young Slumdog Millionaire co-star co·star also co-star  
n.
A starring actor or actress given equal status with another or others in a play or film.

tr. & intr.v. co·starred, co·star·ring, co·stars
To act or present as a costar.
 Rubina Ali's father tried to sell her.

The 49-year-old actor is currently in Hollywood to receive an honour at the seventh annual Indian Film Festival.

Kapoor admits he always feared that the child stars of the Oscar winning film would be exploited upon their return to India after a trip to the Oscars in February (09).

"That's the worry we always had. We all discussed that... When they're exposed to this kind of limelight limelight: see calcium oxide.
limelight

Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s.
 this is what is going to be the disadvantages (sic)," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

Kapoor said he couldn't believe the British tabloid reports that Ali's father tried to sell her to a bogus bo·gus  
adj.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks.



[From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money.
 Middle Eastern couple.

Meanwhile, Indian police have failed to find any evidence to prove Rafiq Qureshi attempted to sell his young daughter for 200,000 pounds to a wealthy Arab Sheikh sheikh
 or shaykh

Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders.
. (ANI)

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