Slumdog Millionaire's young stars at the Oscars in February: front left, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Rubina Ali and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar; back left, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar and Tanay Hemant. Ismail and Ali had been promised better housing in India. (Matt Sayles/Associated Press)

One of the child actors from the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, plucked from his life of obscurity in an Indian slum to act in the film, has moved with his family to a new home.

Nirja Matoo, from the Jai Ho Trust, established by the movie's British director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson, confirmed Saturday that Azharuddin Ismail's family had moved to a 247-square-foot ground-floor apartment near the Bandra district of central Mumbai.

"[The] family moved into their new home [Friday] evening. We gave the keys to them," said Matoo

The 11-year-old had been living with his parents in a corrugated iron hut in the Gareeb Nagar slum in Bandra.

Ownership of the new property is to be transferred from the trust to the boy once he turns 18 and completes his education.

The Jai Ho Trust is also about to complete the purchase of a similar property for Ismail's nine-year-old co-star, Rubina Ali, who still lives in a Mumbai slum.

The fate of the two children has been the focus of an intense media scrutiny in the wake of the film's success.

Slumdog Millionaire garnered eight Academy Awards in February.

Boyle and Colson were criticized for their treatment of the child actors, who continued to live with their families in the slums.

The filmmakers fought back, contending that the children are enrolled in school for the first time and pointed to a fund that had been set up to pay their living and medical expenses.