Author: Rohit Khilnani Source: IBNLive.in.com, March 16, 2009 This Mumbai girl has made India very proud. From Hollywood projects to being a brand ambassador along with being featured in every leading fashion magazine, Freida Pinto has arrived. She spoke to CNN-IBN’s chief entertainment correspondent Rohit Khilnani about her herself, Slumdog Millionaire future projects, personal life [...]
Author: n/a Magazine: Maxim (India), issue March 2009 After a dream debut performance in the much-felicitated, much-hyped Slumdog Millionaire, the small-town Latika has been rubbing famous shoulders the world over. Maxim gives you a sneak peek at Freida Pinto, the girl who launched a thousand award nights. When did you realize acting was the thing [...]
Author: Priyanka Dasgupta Source: TimesofIndia.IndiaTimes.com, March 7, 2009 How did you bag the Woody Allen film? I am represented by CAA, one of the most powerful agencies in Hollywood. It was through them that I got this role. I met Woody Allen a few days after the Oscars and that’s how it happened. How has [...]
Author: Sanchita Guha Source: HindustanTimes.com, March 7, 2009 In a life filled with the best of everything, Freida Pinto misses one thing: she can’t jump on and off the Mumbai locals any more. “I still would, but my mom’s scared,” says the actress of Slumdog Millionaire, whose stratospheric rise runs parallel to the film’s story [...]
Author: Corinne Griffith-Cole Magazine: Cosmopolitan (India), issue March 2009 Ever since Slumdog Millionaire hit theaters and resonated with both critics and viewers, everyone’s been buzzing about first-time actress Freida Pinto. Almost overnight, the Mumbai-born former model has gone from “who’s that girl” to “It girl,” whirling across the globe to attend scores of red-carpet events [...]
Author: Krista Smith Magazine: Vanity Fair (US), issue March 2009 Age: 24. Provenance: Mumbai. Catapulted to stardom as… Latika, the irresistible love interest in Danny Boyle’s Golden Globe–winning Slumdog Millionaire, which was set—and filmed—in her native city. “Bombay is literally the third character in the film, and a very important one,” says Pinto, a former [...]
Author: Akshay Bhansali Source: MTV.com, February 17 2009 In just six short months, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have gone from relative obscurity to patting Jon Stewart’s shoulder and gleefully getting down Bollywood-style with Ellen DeGeneres — all a byproduct of the success of their feature-film acting debuts in “Slumdog Millionaire.” In fact, the journey [...]
Author: Booth Moore Source: LATimes.com, February 15, 2009 A black SUV sidles up to the curb on Pioneer Boulevard and out climbs Freida Pinto in Chanel shades and a royal blue Moschino dress, with her makeup artist, the makeup artist’s assistant and her publicist in tow. It’s quite an entourage for sleepy Artesia, home to [...]
Author: Chris Mooney Magazine: Arena (UK), issue February 2009 “At first I thought it was all jokes. Why would Danny Boyle come to India to shoot a film in the first place, and then audition me?” Freida Pinto is sitting with Arena in a freezing Shoreditch flad on a dark Friday night, having just posed [...]
Author: Luke Crisell Magazine: Nylon (US), issue January 2009 Not to give it away, but at the end of director Danny Boyle’s latest film, Slumdog Millionaire, the entire cast bursts into song. They dance, too, flamboyantly and unselfconsciously and with much twirling of brightly colored scarves. It’s an unfamiliar sight in a Western film, but [...]
