Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little Stars
Some of silver screen's most endearing stars are pint-sized. On Children's Day, here are ten films that starred a junior brigade.
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Some of silver screen's most endearing stars are pint-sized. On Children's Day, here are films that starred a junior brigade
Bhoothnath Returns (2014): A ghost and a spirited child take on a powerful and corrupt politician. Parth Bhalerao and Amitabh Bachchan delivered a wholesome entertainer with a powerful social message in the film which inspired children to be the harbingers of change in society. -
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998): The movie would have remained incomplete without the little Anjali who goes on to unite her father Rahul Khanna with his childhood friend Anjali Sharma. And whoever can forget her young friend – the little sardaar who keeps counting stars throughout the movie.
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Chillar Party (2011): The movie about a gang of innocent children who stand up to a politician and save a street dog's life got a lot of appreciation for exposing the dichotomy between classes in Indian society. The film bagged the National Film Award for Best Children's Film for that year.
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Stanley Ka Dabba (2011): Amole Gupte's heartwarming film is centered around Stanley who never carries his lunch box to school and is warned by his school teacher to quit once he finds out. The movie ends with the revelation that the child is an orphan who works in a restaurant.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005): Freddie Highmore played Charlie Bucket, the shy, soft-spoken boy who gets an opportunity to visit a storied chocolate factory run by the decidedly eccentric Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp. The movie was director Tim Burton's adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl book.
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The Chronicles Of Narnia (2005 onwards): Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell and Skandar Keynes starred as the Pevensie children in the film series based on C S Lewis' magical world of Narnia, people with talking animals and accessed through a wardrobe.
