Dinner with ‘Slumdog’ stars to be auctioned

A dinner with the stars of the smash-hit film “Slumdog Millionaire” will be one of the prizes auctioned at the Doha 21st Century Leaders Awards on Friday, October 30.The multi-award winning director and producer team of Danny Boyle and Christian Colson will be in Doha this week to be honoured in the Doha 21st Century Leaders Awards to be held at the Grand Hyatt Doha for their humanitarian work.As part of the evening, the Slumdog Millionaire team are offering a unique prize that will be auctioned on the evening - a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet the stars of the film over dinner at a top London restaurant. The dinner will include Frieda Pinto, Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor. The auction winner will also have the opportunity to pose for photographs with the cast members, Danny and Christian and their Best Picture and Best Director Academy Award statuettes.As a permanent souvenir of the dinner event, the auction winner will also receive a special, limited edition copy of the photo-diary book 'Nineteen Hours and Fourteen Minutes’ that documents the Oscar experience of the cast and crew on the day when the film swept the Oscars in 2008, taking home 8 awards. The book itself is number 100 of a limited 100 issue print run, which was only made available to those directly involved with the film, and has never been available to members of the public prior to this, and will be signed by the stars on the night.