Question: Who was the author of the book on which the 2008 movie starring Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was loosely based?

Context articles: Alexie Gilmore
Avalon High (film)
Riyaz Bhatkal
Iqbal Bhatkal
Al-Azraqi
Slumdog Millionaire
K-9000
Chicken Fried
Sacha Sacket
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail

Alexie Gilmore (born December 11, 1976) is an American actress who starred in the television series "New Amsterdam" as Dr. Sara Dillane.
 She is featured in the 2008 movie "Definitely, Maybe" and starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the 2008 movie "Surfer, Dude".
 Alexie also played the part of Kelly in the 2013 film "Willow Creek (film)" starring "Bryce Johnson" and directed by "Bobcat Goldthwait".
 She played Devon Atwood in three episodes of "" as "Elijah Mundo" wife.
 Alexie's other credits include "90210", "Legends" with "Sean Bean" and many others.
Avalon High is a 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Gregg Sulkin, Britt Robertson, Joey Pollari, and Devon Graye.
 The movie is loosely based on the book of the same name by Meg Cabot.
 It premiered on November 12, 2010, in the United States, January 22, 2011, in Australia and New Zealand, and January 28, 2011, in the UK.
Riyaz Bhatkal, also known as Shah Riyaz Ahmad Mohammed Ismail Shahbandari aka Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri, is the founder leader and a wanted terrorist of Indian Mujahideen, a terrorist group based in India.
 Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri is one of the Indian Mujahideen's three top commanders and is currently based in Karachi, Pakistan along with his brother Iqbal Bhatkal.
Iqbal Bhatkal aka Iqbal Shahbandri is the ideologue, leader and wanted terrorist of Indian Mujahideen, a terrorist group based in India.
 He is the brother of Riyaz Bhatkal aka Shah Riyaz Ahmad Mohammed Ismail Shahbandari, one of the Indian Mujahideen's three top commanders and is currently based in Karachi, Pakistan.
Al-Azraqi was a 9th-century Islamic commentator and historian, and author of the "Kitab Akhbar Makka" (Book of reports about Makka).
 He is from a family who lived in Makka for hundreds of years.
 He gave information on the design and layout of the pre-Islamic Ka'aba at Makka after its rebuilding following a fire in 603 AD until its possession by Mohammed in 630 AD.
 The contents included a statue of Hubal, the principal male deity of Makka, and a number of other pagan items, which were destroyed in 630 as idolatrous.
 They also included a pair of ram’s horns said to have belonged to the ram sacriﬁced by the Prophet Abraham in place of his son, the Prophet Ismail, and a painting (probably a fresco) of Jesus and Mary.
 According to Al-Azraqi, Mohammed spared these items, which survived until the destruction by the Umayyads in 683 AD.
 Al-Azraqi is silent on the fate of the images of trees that are known also to have decorated the interior of the Ka'aba, pictures of which formed part of the mosaic decoration on the walls of the cathedral of al-Qalis in Sana'a, and were later to emerge in the Umayyad mosaics in the Dome of the Rock, the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, and the Great Mosque of Damascus.
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson.
 Set and filmed in India, it is a loose adaptation of the novel "Q & A" (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup, telling the story of Jamal Malik, age 18, from the Juhu slums of Mumbai.
 As a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
 who is able to answer every stage correctly, he is accused of cheating.
 Jamal recounts his history, illustrating how he is able to answer each question.
K-9000 is a 1991 sci-fi crime TV movie starring Chris Mulkey, Catherine Oxenberg, Dennis Haysbert, and Judson Scott.
 It was directed by Kim Manners and written by Michael Part and Steven E. de Souza.
 The movie was intended as pilot for unsold tv-series loosely based on a movie K-9 (1989).
"Chicken Fried" is a song by the Zac Brown Band, whose frontman Zac Brown co-wrote it with Wyatt Durrette.
 The song was first recorded in 2003 for the 2004 album "Home Grown".
 A second version was then released in 2006 by The Lost Trailers, whose version was released as a single but withdrawn from radio.
 Two years later, the Zac Brown Band re-recorded the song and released it as the first single from their album "The Foundation".
 In late 2008, it became their first chart single, as well as their first number-one hit on the "Billboard" country charts.
 The Zac Brown Band version was also featured in the 2008 movie "Witless Protection", starring Larry the Cable Guy.
Sacha Sacket (born September 20, 1978, in Tehran, Iran) is an American pop singer-songwriter who resides in Los Angeles, California.
 Sacket has produced six albums, "Alabaster Flesh" (2001), "Shadowed" (2005), "Lovers and Leaders" (2007), "Live at the Zone" (2008), "Hermitage" (2009), and "Viscera" (2010).
 He has also starred in the 2008 movie "November Son", directed by Jason Paul Collum and is currently starring in the musical ""It Gets Better"," (2012) which also features songs he has written.
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (Urdu: ‎ , Hindi: अजहरुद्दीन मोहम्मद इस्माइल ) (born 1998) is an Indian child actor, who played the youngest version of Salim Malik in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
 Following the film's success, he has been cast in the Bollywood film "Kal Kisne Dekha" (2009).