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  • 4/18/2025
A 12-year-old from a Mumbai slum met a Hollywood actor and he helped turn her life around... like it happens in the movies... ️

Maleesha Kharwa was also featured in a short film, Live Your Fairytale.
Transcript
00:00Hi, my name is Malisha. I am 12 years old.
00:20Yes!
00:21When I was 5 years, I saw one model, Ram Fox, so I thought that I will also be a model.
00:43And then my interviews and modeling shooting happened and I was very happy.
00:51I was very happy.
01:01I needed some authentic, slum people for this music video.
01:05But I just noticed she was, you know, obviously so many different things about Malisha.
01:20And when I talked to her and found out that that's what she wanted to do, I was like, what are you doing to pursue it?
01:24And she had no idea of like, what's first steps to take. So I was like, all right, you know what, let me, let me see if I can step in and help out a little bit.
01:36Her family took it very seriously and they took a lot of it.
01:39I thought they were just going to be overjoyed at the chance to be helped in that way by somebody that had the connections to do it.
01:49But I was really happy to see they took it very seriously and they wanted to confer with their entire family.
01:54And, you know, and I also just want to make sure that they understood things like, you know, this isn't a guarantee and this has an expiration on it.
02:01I wouldn't feel comfortable doing this if we didn't make sure her schooling came first, et cetera, et cetera.
02:32I was very happy, but I was a little bit scared.
02:42When I do sports, then I come at home and I tell my friends, my family that today I had a lot of fun. I do this, I do that.
02:51I like to dance, study, do modeling, play. My mates have to do all things. I like to do all things.
03:05Play with friends. I like more cycling. I do, I do my daddy's cycle.
03:16I want to sit in plane.
03:21I always say, everybody try, try till you succeed.

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