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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Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsSome 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. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsKuch 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. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsChillar 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. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsStanley 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. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsThe Sound Of Music (1965): This classic starred Julie Andrews as governess to the seven very difficult Von Trapp children. Through music and song, she helps them develop a close relationship with their distant and stern father. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsCharlie 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. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsHum Hai Rahi Pyaar Ke (1993): In an Indianised version of The Sound Of Music, child stars Master Sharokh, Kunal Khemu and Baby Ashrafa played merry hell with uncle Aamir Khan before forming an alliance with the runaway Juhi Chawla. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsE.T (1982): Steven Spielberg's heartwarming tale of an alien befriended by 10-year-old Elliott, his two siblings and their friends who band together to help E.T go home. Drew Barrymore, all of 6, played Elliott's little sister Gertie. -
Happy Children's Day: Cinema's Big Little StarsThe 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.
