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“A Kind of Childhood”

Tareque and Catherine Masud’s film to be screened at Indian festival

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
Idris is one of die thousands of children who ekes out a living on the streets of Dhaka from an early age to help his ailing father. But he cherishes a dream -- for an education -- even as he works as an assistant in a public transport vehicle.
When circumstances force him to drop out of school, his dream for education is replaced by a craze for urban success but as harsh realities of city life close in on him, his goals change.
The story of Idris is the subject matter of “A Kind of Childhood” (made
in 2005) by Catherine and Tareque Masud, giving the sole Bangladeshi flavour to the 16th International Children's Film Festival of India beginning in the soudiern city of Hyderabad on November 14 (celebrated in the country as Children's Day coinciding the birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru).
Seventy films from India and abroad will be screened during the festival and 18 movies will be shown in the Asian section.
Actor-director Nandita Das, who is the chairperson of Children's Film Society of India, told media persons here on November 5 that this was the
first time that the Society has joined hands with the UNICEF.
The festival will screen "quality" films and emphasise the importance of entertainment/or every child, Dus said.
Das, who acted in films like "Fire", "Ramchand Pakistani”, “Earth" and directed the critically acclaimed “Firaaq” on communal riots in Gujarat, said the Children's Film Society of India is negotiating with Bollywood filmmakers like Vishal Bhardwaj on how to make entertainment for children more meaningful and provide an alternative to "meaningless violence on television".
The Hyderabad festival will also
showcase some short documentaries made by children from villages.
India has not seen much meaningful and entertaining films for children other than those made by maestro Satyajit Ray (the “Goopi Bagha" trilogy, "Jai Baba Felunath" and “Sonar Kella") and a few by Ritwik Ghatak ("Baari Thekey Paliye”) and Tapan Sinha (“Safed Haathi” and “Sabuj Dwiper Raja"). However, those were films whose appeal cut across all age groups.
One comes across any film made in that tradition and Nandita is justified when she asks, “why children's films are invisible in India?”