New Delhi: As a nation, we are passionately committed and engaged in the manufacture of children. Presently, rolling out a 1 billion plus population, we are riding high and hot on the global record register. This automatically means that we have a gigantic 'kiddies club' across all stratas of society. We are also the proud manufactures of the 'largest volume' of movies on planet earth and of course everyone is everyone is fully aware of our movie-madness and craze for movie stars. This disease is truly infectious in a democratic way because it embraces masses everywhere, cutting across all religion, language, caste, creed, colour and social barrier, in frightening fashion.
Superimposed on this very scenario is the strange, sad and shockingly shameful plight of a genre that should have got at least a fraction of the spectacular hi-fives so generously given to commercial cinema but didn't. Result? On one end lies a world buried amidst an embarrassment of riches, while on the other lies a world living in the shadows, rejected, neglected, overlooked, ignored, unattended, uncared and frequently dismissed by the merchants of muck as 'sideshows'. A disfranchised (in popular imagination) territory with all the 'formal and official' trappings required for fulfilling the 'political correctness' quotient, children films, alas, continues to garner precious little respect, attention or recognition it deserves.
The reason is simple. In India, mass-entertainment is Bollywood, which means stars. In this format, where do children feature, except as props? Also (like art cinema) there has
12:40 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Mumbai: It was one of his most natural performances, says proud father Amol Gupte after his son won a National Award for his acting in 'Stanley Ka Dabba', adding that the little boy is yet to know about the honour. "It is one of his most natural performances. It is a deserving award for him. We as a family are proud to have Partho as our son. He has gone...
07:58 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Amole Gupte's 'Stanley Ka Dabba', which has garnered a lot of critical acclaim, will now travel to 10 international film festivals. The film, which has Gupte's son, Partho, playing Stanley, has been immensely appreciated for its impressive storyline and fine performances. It has already been screened at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival, Prague Indian Film Festival, International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences SCHLINGEL, the...
01:21 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Mumbai: Partho Gupte, who shot to fame with his stellar performance as the wise but deprived Stanley in his father Amole Gupte's film 'Stanley Ka Dabba', has brought home the world's most prestigious award for a child actor. At the Schlingel International Film Festival which concluded in Chemnitz in Germany Sunday, the 10-year-old won the best actor award from among 130 young actors competing in films from all across the...
05:39 PM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Writer-filmmaker-child activist Amole Gupte's "Stanley Ka Dabba" won a special award at the Giffoni Film Festival, one of the largest children's film fest in Europe. The award "United Against Injustice: Depends on me" has been given by ActionAid, an organisation whose vision is to have a world without poverty. "The issue of hunger and need for the entire world, including the medium of cinema, especially the so-called commercial...
07:05 PM, Jul 21, 2011
On this week's episode of Secret Kitchen, Amole Gupte shows his culinary skills. ...
01:35 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Amole Gupte and wife Deepa Bhatia of Stanley Ka Dabba are now taking the cause of child labour further. Today, they will be going around distributing the Stanleys buddy badge to the Bollywood denizens. Last we heard Akshay Kumar, Genelia Dsouza, Karan Johar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt and all the directors associated with Dharma Productions, will be wearing the badge proudly tomorrow, announcing their support to the cause...
04:10 PM, May 27, 2011
Rajeev Masand says, 'Stanley ka dabba' is heartwarming. What do you feel? Write your reviews and win prizes.
10:11 PM, May 13, 2011
Cast: Partho, Amole Gupte, Divya Dutta, Rahul Singh Director: Amole Gupte Few films have the heartwarming impact of Stanley Ka Dabba, which takes you right back to the wonder years of your school life. Those hushed whispers in the back benches, sharing sandwiches out of each other's tiffin boxes, ganging up against a cruel teacherit all comes back to you in a flash, as you sit there watching this film...
08:25 PM, May 13, 2011
Mumbai: They were supposed to be weekends full of cinema and theatre workshops for students of his alma mater, but a year and a half down the line, screenplay writer Amole Gupte of Taare Zameen Par fame has a whole film, Stanley Ka Dabba, ready. "I didn't plan a film at all. It started with a cinema and theatre session at Holy Family High School in Andheri - the school...
12:17 PM, Apr 12, 2011
Gupte played the role of a Maharashtrian mafioso in the film. ...
11:14 AM, Aug 24, 2009
Shahid was present for a screening of a film made by Municipal school kids. ...
02:04 AM, Jul 27, 2009
Guess who is playing lead in the upcoming movie
Kaminey. ...
06:39 PM, May 06, 2009
Karachi: Neither retired nor planning to take up coaching once that happens, but that has not stopped Pakistan's senior batsman Younis Khan from completing a level two coaching course at the National Cricket Academy. Before this course, Younis has also completed a level one coaching course conducted by the PCB. "I think playing cricket and coaching are two very different things and require different skills. It is not necessary if...
01:44 PM, Feb 07, 2008
