KABUL: An Afghan street kid is off to Hollywood and the red-carpet treatment at the Oscars - a fairytale ending to a chance encounter that led to a starring role in a movie.
Fawad Mohammadi, 14, was selling maps to passing foreigners on Kabul's famed Chicken Street to help feed his family when he met American director Sam French.
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