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Rs 5.4 lakh raised to send Afghan boy to the Oscars

Updated on: 15 February,2013 07:28 AM IST  | 
Agencies |

Afghan film project launched the mission to send the 14-year-old star of Buzkashi Boys to the ceremony; remaining funds will go towards his college education

Rs 5.4 lakh raised to send Afghan boy to the Oscars

Fawad Mohammadi (in pic) has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a trip down the red carpet at the Oscars.


Mohammadi’s walk down the red carpet is owing to a worldwide campaign to raise money to pay for his trip. Fawad (14), stars in the Oscar-nominated live-action short film Buzkashi Boys but had no hopes of getting to the ceremony in Los Angeles on February 24 until the Afghan Film Project launched a fund-raising effort.



So far more than $10,000 (Rs 5.4 lakh) has been raised, which will not only pay for Fawad and his co-star Jawa Paiz’s trip, but will also go towards Fawad’s college education.

Fawad, who will be fitted with a tuxedo for the walk up the Oscar red carpet, has never previously been far from the corner of Kabul’s Chicken Street, so the visit, which will involve a full schedule of interviews and parties, will be a major cultural change for him.

To help them make the transition, he and Jawa, who has been acting since he was five-years-old, will be staying at the home of an Afghan couple in Los Angeles and will be accompanied by a chaperone from Kabul.

Buzkashi Boys is set against the background of contemporary Afghanistan and the national sport of Buzkashi — a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat.

The film follows two best friends, a defiant blacksmith’s son (Fawad) and a charismatic street urchin (Jawa) as they struggle to survive in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. u00a0

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