these slum kids lap up world cinema | mumbai news - times of india - dvd projector

Mumbai: "a long time ago, a man's wife was going to have children.
When he saw a snake that was also pregnant, he was traveling by rickshaw.
He deliberately drove the rickshaw to the snake and killed it.
When his wife gave birth, his skin was like the skin on the snake.
This surreal story, woven into a script, was written by nine people. year-
Old Solia Qureshi from Pali
Municipal School of Bandra chin worship.
Solia tells her script in perfect English with confidence.
Before writing her own script, however, she had a chance to see a lot of world movies.
She is one of a group of poor children from Bandra who got the first
Thanks to Amole Gupte, creator of Taare Zameen Par, who has been exposed to movies from all over the world.
The children are from ASEAN, an NGO that works with civic schools in Bandra and poor children in monasteries in the region.
Gupte has been working with ASEAN for over a year and he wants to teach them to watch movies.
So Charlie Chaplin entered a land --
Floor rooms in Pali-
Qimaibai municipal school via DVD projector.
Children from the age of 7 to 17 watched the movie with enthusiasm.
The child is the most popular in the class.
Mr. Suneeta Gaddam (17)
She laughed in the film: "I really like to watch a man take care of the baby.
The mother usually takes care of the child.
My father is too busy to get busy.
"In understanding the language of the film, children are better than adults, especially children like these from poor backgrounds who have wonderful stories to tell," Gupte said . ".
Some kids, like Ashish (17)
Lent their voice to 30-year-old Raju and me.
An animated film about children's rights produced by Assema three years ago.
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