'Slumdog Millionaire' Kids Could Lose Their Trust Funds

'Slumdog Millionaire' stars Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Ali -- who played young Salim and young Latika in the Oscar-winning film -- are in danger of being stripped of the trust funds producers of the movie set up for them if they miss any more school.

According to the terms of the trust, the two children must have a 70 percent attendance rate yet both are way below that number, FoxNews.com reports.
Azhar is showing up at school 37 percent of the time and Rubina only 27 percent of the time.

"It's pathetic," Noshir Dadrawala, who administers the Jai Ho Trust.

"They are constantly going to Paris and Cochin and Chennai. That's fine, but go over the weekend, not at the sacrifice of school," Dadrawala added.

Parents of the young actors both claim they will be attending more regularly, and blame family deaths and illness for the missing days.

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'Slumdog' Kids

"Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle, left, speaks with a journalist as child actor Rubina Ali, center, looks on in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. The two child stars of 'Slumdog Millionaire' are at risk of losing their monthly stipend and their trust fund if they don't start attending school, a trustee for the fund said Thursday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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New York-based Lebanese body builder George Farah, center, poses with "Slumdog Millionaire" child stars Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, right, and Rubina Ali when they happen to meet at a hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. A trustee for the child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" says the kids' poor attendance at school is putting their trust fund at risk. The filmmakers set up the trust to provide an education, housing and a living allowance to the young stars of the Oscar winning film. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY BEATRICE LE BOHEC --- (FILES) This photo taken on February 26, 2009 shows "Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail waving to neighbours and wellwishers gathered outside his shanty after arriving back from the Oscars at the Behrampada slums in Mumbai. Azharuddin, 11 years old, is telling his short life-story in a book. More than six months after the success of the film, Azharuddin is trying "to bring a human dimension in an incdredible story, without making a 'success story' in the American style", sums up Mouhssine Ennaimi, a French journalist based in Bombay who wrote the tale. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY BEATRICE LE BOHEC --- (FILES) This photo taken on May 30, 2009 shows Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire's child star Azharuddin Ismail in a bed inside his shanty in Mumbai. Azharuddin, 11 years old, is telling his short life-story in a book. More than six months after the success of the film, Azharuddin is trying "to bring a human dimension in an incdredible story, without making a 'success story' in the American style", sums up Mouhssine Ennaimi, a French journalist based in Bombay who wrote the tale. AFP PHOTO/Sajjad HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY BEATRICE LE BOHEC --- (FILES) This photo taken on July 4, 2009 shows Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire's child star Azharuddin Ismail inside the compound of his newly allocated apartment in central Mumbai. Azharuddin, 11 years old, is telling his short life-story in a book. More than six months after the success of the film, Azharuddin is trying "to bring a human dimension in an incdredible story, without making a 'success story' in the American style", sums up Mouhssine Ennaimi, a French journalist based in Bombay who wrote the tale. AFP PHOTO/Pal PILLAI (Photo credit should read PAL PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images)

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FILES- This file picture shows Mohammed Ismail, father of "Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail resting inside his shanty while waiting news of the Oscars, in Mumbai on February 23, 2009. Mohammed Ismail died of tuberculosis at the family's home in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)

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FILES- This file picture shows Mohammed Ismail (R), father of "Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail resting inside his shanty while waiting news of the Oscars, in Mumbai on February 23, 2009. Mohammed Ismail died of tuberculosis at the family's home in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)

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FILES- This file picture shows a photojournalist taking a picture of Mohammed Ismail, father of "Slumdog Millionaire" child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail as he rests inside his shanty while waiting news of the Oscars, in Mumbai on February 23, 2009. Mohammed Ismail died of tuberculosis at the family's home in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)

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MUMBAI, INDIA - JULY 07: Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail, child star of the Oscar winning 'Slumdog Millionaire' celebrating his newly allocated 250 square foot apartment by 'Jai Ho' trust in Santacruz in the Western Mumbai Suburbs with his family on July 7, 2009 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Ritam Banerjee/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail

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