RH First Look: Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire)
Baseball stars such as Carlos Lee, and Jermaine Dye are just two of the 99 that have hit homeruns in their first major league at bats. While they have followed up their debut dingers with many other homerun trots, clutch RBI's, and built solid careers, countless other hitters such as Bill Roman and Andre David hit one out of the park out of the gate, and then dwindled into baseball obscurity. Similarly, the music industry has seen more than its fair share of artists hit it big, then hit the ground. So many, that the phrase "one hit wonder" is regular vernacular, and shoveled upon artists who go from no-name to top of the charts until they can prove otherwise.
Actress/Model Freida Pinto has done the movie equivalent of a first at-bat homerun with her role in "Slumdog Millionaire". After struggling to turn a successful modeling and TV career into big screen appearances, the Mumbai-born Pinto was cast in Danny Boyle's independent Oscar nominated film, "Slumdog Millionaire" as Latika, a scrappy child orphan turned beautiful woman locked into a world of power and violence. Latika is 'the third musketeer' so to speak, and the love interest of the film's protagonist, Jamal, the Slumdog turned Millionaire.
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