For Slumdog Millionaire pair Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, it has been an eventful journey so far. Ever since the rags-to-riches story swept major awards at the Oscars, their career graph ascended dramatically landing movie deals with Hollywood’s top filmmakers.

Pinto will be seen in the Woody Allen-directed romantic You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and Patel in the sci-fi flick The Last Airbender, directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan. While the former is scheduled to release in September this year, the latter will open on July 2.

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger is a tale ab­out the various members of a family, their tangled love lives and their attempt to try and solve their problems. The movie features Hollywood stars Josh Bro­lin, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Naomi Watts. Interestingly, there is one more Indian in this movie. Anupam Kher plays the role of Pinto’s father. Allen shot the love comedy in London last summer.

The other movie starring Pinto under production and scheduled to be released later this year in English, French and Hebrew is Miral, directed by Julian Schnabel. It is an adaptation of Palestinian-born 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. The movie was shot in Jerusalem.

Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is an adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon animation series of the sa­me name. It follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations. Patel plays Zuko, the prince of the Fire Nation, and Aang, played by Noah Ringer, is an Avatar who can control the elements of the world and must stop the Fire Nation from ruling the world.

To be different from James Cameron’s Avatar, the film has dropped ‘Avatar’ from its title. Jesse McCartney was originally cast to play Zuko but was replaced with Patel due to scheduling problems. This action adventure movie is said to be a part of a trilogy.

Pinto and Patel are hoping that audiences will be as impressed with their latest performances as they were with Slumdog, and will allow them to prove that they are much more than one- movie wonders.