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Alitle girl takes a last look at the house she grew up in. Another confesses to murder. A boy breaks down before his obsessive, hard-handed father.
A son snaps at his mother in a cramped chawl. And a young boy keeps his chin up in the toughest of spots. These are just some of my favourite images from Hindi cinema of the last one year or so. Incredibly, they all feature actors below the age of 16.
A bunch of talented child and teen actors are gradually taking over Bollywood. I’ve chosen a few Ananya Dwivedi (Gulabo Sitabo), Inayat Verma (Ajeeb Daastaans, Ludo), Aakshath Das (Mersal, Serious Men), Sachin Chaudhary (Bombay Begums, Pagglait), Lydian Nadhaswaram (Atkan Chatkan) but the list is huge. If you grew up in the 90s, you will remember Omkar Kapoor, Kunal Keemu, Sana Saeed and others as the popular child stars of the day.
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