Freida Pinto was surprised with slums People

“Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto was surprised when nobody recognised her in a Mumbai slum recently.

“People in the city recognise me as the girl from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and inevitably they stare. But when I visited the slums with an NGO, nobody recognised me at all. I didn’t mind,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Pinto as saying.

The 26-year-old star shot to fame after the Oscar winning movie and since then has featured on cover pages of a lot of fashion magazines and has bagged a few Hollywood projects as well

Freida Pinto Sexy Pics Cute Indian Model

Freida Pinto Hot Indian Model & Actress Photos Wallpapers Pics

Freida Pinto refusing her boyfriend Dev Patel.

It seems Freida Pinto is in no mood to give inside details about her relationship with boyfriend Dev Patel.

Pinto, 26, refused to confirm whether she and Patel are engaged.

"Dev had such a problem trying to tell people that was not true," UsMagazine.com quoted her as telling BlackBook.

"I’ve decided not to answer stupidity with more stupidity," she added.

Freida Pinto bored with Lovey-dovely roles

Freida Pinto is apparently bored of playing the lovey-dovey roles on screen and is keen to do some action.

“I keep playing the damsel in distress. But I’d like something with a kick now,” she is quoted as saying by Daily Mail online.

The 25-year-old Mumbaikar shot to fame as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win eight Oscars and played a similar feminine character in Woody Allen’s romance You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

Pinto admitted that she was nervous before shooting with Woody Allen.

“This was my third film, so I was worried I was the only one with a lot to learn. But when I met people like Anthony Hopkins who were feeling pretty nervous, I realised everyone is intimidated to work with a legend,” said Pinto.

Sadly, Pinto hasn’t got very flattering reviews for her performance in the Israeli-Palestinian film Miral.

Freida Pinto is in question of Acting

Freida Pinto seems to have conquered the west as the starlet of Slumdog Millionaire but critics and cynics are quite disapproving of Freida Pinto’s Palestinian girl act in Julian Schnabel’s French-Italian film Miral, which is competing for the Golden Lion Trophy in the ongoing Venice Film festival. The film will also travel to Toronto Film Festival later.

However, the fate of the film, which is a screen adaptation of Italo-Palestinian writer Rula Jebreal’s memoirs, is decided. It is severely panned by critics for being boring, and Freida is called unexpressive, and misfit for the character. The guardian.co.uk writes, “Very unhappily, Schnabel has cast Freida Pinto, the Indian star of Slumdog Millionaire, as young Miral, this supposedly proudly Palestinian woman. The miscasting is absolutely awful.”

While Movieweb writes, “Hiam Abbas was in Venice for the premiere of Julian Schnabel’s Miral but curiously Freida Pinto, "Miral" herself, was not. Maybe she saw some unflattering reviews coming.”

Right now Freida is in India and has signed a Hollywood period film that has actor Antonio Banderas which is titled Black Thirst to be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and will narrate the story of how America started targeting the Gulf as early as 1920 for oil. Freida will play an Arabian princess.

This movie is Freida’s sixth international project. She will next be seen in Woody Allen’s film You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger.