Washington
(ANI):
Slumdog
Millionaire
star
Freida
Pinto
has
been
roped
in
to
star
in
Oscar
winner
Julian
Schnabel"s
new
film
Miral.
The
film
is
an
adaptation
of
Italo-Palestinian
Rula
Jebreal"s
book
about
Hind
Husseini,
who
founded
an
orphanage
in
Jerusalem
in
the
wake
of
the
1948
partition
of
Palestine
and
the
creation
of
the
state
of
Israel,
reports
Variety.
Palestinian
actor
Hiam
Abbas
will
play
the
lead
role
in
the
French
Israeli
co-production.
The
film
will
be
shot
in
Israel
and
the
Palestinian
territories.