Freida Pinto seems to have conquered the west as the starlet of Slumdog Millionaire but critics and cynics are quite disapproving of Freida Pinto’s Palestinian girl act in Julian Schnabel’s French-Italian film Miral, which is competing for the Golden Lion Trophy in the ongoing Venice Film festival. The film will also travel to Toronto Film Festival later. However, the fate of the film, which is a screen adaptation of Italo-Palestinian writer Rula Jebreal’s memoirs, is decided. It is severely panned by critics for being boring, and Freida is called unexpressive, and misfit for the character. The guardian.co.uk writes, “Very unhappily, Schnabel has cast Freida Pinto, the Indian star of Slumdog Millionaire, as young Miral, this supposedly proudly Palestinian woman. The miscasting is absolutely awful.” While Movieweb writes, “Hiam Abbas was in Venice for the premiere of Julian Schnabel’s Miral but curiously Freida Pinto, "Miral" herself, was not. Maybe she ...