While his co-actors Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the youngest Latika and Salim in "Slumdog Millionaire", accept alternate to the barrio of Mumbai and run into a access of claimed troubles and controversies, Ayush, who belongs to a far beneath beggared background, is blame for greater glory.

The adolescent amateur was on the Cannes red carpeting for the screening of British adept Ken Loach's Eric Cantona-starrer "Looking for Eric". Ayush, who accustomed Sunday, is in Cannes for a five-day pre-production promotional affair for his next, a Swiss blur blue-blooded "Shyam's Secret".

Co-produced by Deborah Mangola of Mangola Films forth with ally in France and India, the Swiss blur is set to cycle in Goa Oct 9.

The alpha date has been bent reportedly in acknowledgment to a arrangement laid down by Ayush's father, Bombay Port Trust agent Mahesh Khedekar, that the boy would be accessible to the aggregation alone during his Diwali vacation.

Ayush, incidentally, has acting in his genes. His ancestor dabbled in Marathi theatre afore opting for a added abiding government job.

"Shyam's Secret", co-starring Kabir Bedi and Nisha Harale-Bedi, is an chance account about an eight-year-old European babe who arrives in India and befriends an ambiguous Indian boy, played by Ayush. According to ambassador Deborah Mangola, the blur will be fabricated in French and English.

Ayush came beyond as a faithful pro if he strode up the arty stairs of the Theatre Grand Lumiere here. He was appropriately clad for the occasion, complete with a atramentous cape and bow-tie.

He had two anonymous ladies for aggregation as the diminutive boy airish for the shutterbugs. He has acutely baffled the art of walking the red carpet.