One-way Idea Generation Funding – Vinod Kamble and Samit Kakkar on why good children’s content is so rare in India
One-way Idea Generation Funding – Vinod Kamble and Samit Kakkar on why good children’s content is so rare in India
vinod kamble 2019 movie, Musk – On the plight of a 14-year-old Dalit boy from a family of manual scavengers – won the Best Children’s Film award at the 67th National Film Awards last year. But the director from Maharashtra’s Solapur believes that there is a dearth of suggestive content for children in India.
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“I think we’re being prevented from creating good content because of the fear of creating a society that thinks and questions,” he said, adding that he considers children’s content today as a kind of propaganda. To cultivate the informal train “and create consumers”.
A scene from ‘Kasturi’
For Kamble, cinema is a bridge between generations of parents and their children. But the need of the hour is an attempt to bridge the gap between local, educational content for children in rural India, and so-called Bollywood, which caters only to a pre-determined audience. If the film industry can think beyond profits, he believes that films have tremendous potential to create a better generation of citizens through India’s children.
Vinod Kamble
Meanwhile, Samit Kakkar – whose films have traveled to various international film festivals – feels that censorship is not the main obstacle; We need a structure within which filmmakers can work. And, of course, financing. “If you go to a producer and say ‘I want to make a children’s film’, they’ll tell you it won’t work,” he explains, explaining how, today, producers are only looking for South Indian films and remakes. Want commercial movies and Korean cinema.
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“Because I believed in my projects, I went against all odds and made two films,” says the Mumbai-based filmmaker, who made his first film himself, Aya’s statement , criminal dancer2012) – about a group of boys in a teenage home who discover a passion for dance – and half ticket (2016), on two slum-dwellers who become obsessed with eating pizza (a remake of the 2014 Tamil film, Kaka Muttai,
A scene from ‘Aayana Ka Banana’
For Kakkar, the solution to the paucity of children’s content in India is simple: filmmakers need to come together. “Any major filmmaker or producer can make three commercial films and one children’s film, which can be commercial and entertaining, every year.” a pipe dream? Unless someone actually does this.
The author is a Mumbai-based journalist.