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: 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 [...]
Author: Mark Kirby Magazine: GQ (US), issue January 2009 Eighteen months ago, Freida Pinto was a print model and TV host from Mumbai who spoke in a sexy British English and had never played anyone other than herself in front of a camera. Today, thanks to Slumdog Millionaire—a festival hit about a slum kid competing [...]
Author: Rohin Guha Magazine: Blackbook (US), issue January 2009 Looking like a mutt among prissy Oscar-groomed purebreds, Slumdog Millionaire has been a breath of fresh air for those who’ve already tired of predicable epic award-baiting pastiches (I’m looking at you, Seven Pounds). And while helmer Danny Boyle and his razor-sharp direction is mostly responsible for [...]
Author: Justin Monroe Magazine: Complex (US), issue December 2008/January 2009 Indian actress Freida Pinto Made it to the U.S. without doing the same old song and dance. Though the 23-year-old former model from Bombay auditioned for melodramatic Bollywood roles, she’s going Hollywood with her film debut, playing a child of the ghetto in Danny Boyle’s [...]
Author: Sara Costello Magazine: Paper (US), issue December 2008 The question asked throughout the film Slumdog Millionaire, which took a top prize at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, is one of fate: Is it written? For the film’s actress, Freida Pinto, the question is more: “How can it not be?” The leap from unknown model [...]
