By By Kev Hedges Mar 5, 2011 in Entertainment Mumbai - "Slumdog" child star, Rubina Ali, has said her home has been burned down in an overcrowded slum in Mumbai, India. The 12-year-old child actress, who played a poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film has lost everything. Rubina says she has lost all her awards and her collection of newspaper clippings and photographs from the Slumdog Millionaire film. The rags-to-riches movie won Police are investigating the cause of the blaze but many fires in Mumbai slums are started by faulty electricity cables that hang precariously between shanty buildings. The blaze left The slums were assembled alongside the Bandra railway station in the western suburb of Mumbai. The slum that Rubina lived in had been subject to some In the summer of 2009, Rubina was homeless and waiting for a new home to be issued by state government of Maharashtra. However, on Friday night she said that she and her family were watching television in their corrugated-roofed shack when they heard shouts of a fire and ran out of their home to see the Garib Nagar slums ablaze.Rubina says she has lost all her awards and her collection of newspaper clippings and photographs from the Slumdog Millionaire film. The rags-to-riches movie won eight Oscars two years ago, yet a tearful Rubina said, "It's all gone. Even my best clothes, everything, including books and precious belongings like photographs, newspaper clippings and memorabilia of the film".Police are investigating the cause of the blaze but many fires in Mumbai slums are started by faulty electricity cables that hang precariously between shanty buildings. The blaze left 21 people injured and 2,000 newly homeless.The slums were assembled alongside the Bandra railway station in the western suburb of Mumbai. The slum that Rubina lived in had been subject to some controversy , in particular the exploitation of the the child actors. Some photos of the Mumbai slums before the blaze can be seen here More about Slumdog millionaire, Rubina ali, Mumbai More news from Slumdog millionaire Rubina ali Mumbai