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Darsheel’s childhood will surmount side-effects of stardom?
Class six student, Darsheel Safary, who has got startdom after success of Tare Zameen Par , is feeling something has been changed in his life at his school.
He says about his friends
“They’ve changed totally. I only have some friends left… maybe six in all. The rest have all left me. They’re all the time trying to pull me down. They’re a little jealous of me. When I’m passing by in my car, they go, ‘Hey Darsheel Darsheel. Photo photo’. But I’m happy with my six friends,”
He makes a guess
“I don’t know why my friends have changed. Maybe because I’ve acted in a movie.”
Like adults, the relationships in childhood also face dynamic motions. Success with good money should obviously affect the relationship among kids also. Its not the case where a kid’s parents get rich because here his parents can change the school but here is the case of kid’s own earning which he even can’t understand.
For other students in Darsheel’s class he may be a matter of jealousy but apart from this jealousy factor what will happen to Darsheel in over all sense? After getting that kind of stardom at that early age, will he be able to concentrate on his studies like he used to do before TZP’s offer came to him?
Being part of a successful film means many more offers and that means more money and more stardom and then its almost certain that studies will be affected.
If Darsheel or for that matter any child actor has to make a career in films only then they can search alternative ways to get education but getting sucess in films and at the same time following usual route to get education looks bit difficult task. Life teaches all the time but to get a proper and coherent wisdom a systematic education system is quite helpful also. To lead life in a normal manner one certainly needs a better understanding level.
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This is quite funny that almost all the governments all over the world make hue and cry when children are used in a work where manual work is concerned and its called child labour but this is not the case in art or acting like area and here its seen as a good thing.
A young boy can’t work where his physical power is used but he can work at that place and in that field where his mental power or some artistic skills are used.
Do people think about these so called artistic kids?
In the past it was a common thing and young females used to join films at a very young age and they used to earn bread and butter for whole of the family. Their young years were lost in facing the camera. Meena Kumari, Madhubala were the classic examples of such act.
They started very early and they faced a lot of upheaval all through their lives. Though Madhubala was sick but Meena Kumari succumbed to alcoholism because she was unable to solve her real life’s problems. She married a man whose age was equal to her father’s age and perhaps this decison destroyed her life.
Not always kids get easy jobs in the films. Remembering here an incidence mentioned by late Balraj Sahni. He writes that once a film unit took his son Ajay Sahni (Parikshit Sahni) for a small role. Later when he reached there he found that Ajay was made to hang from a high place and he was crying with fear. Obviously Balraj Sahni became very angry and scolded the director and producer for their nonsense cruel behaviour towards a child and immediately took Ajay back to the home.
Many times child actors have to give shots where they have to pass through a lot of mental trauma. There are rules to stop child labour as governments think what developed nation forced them to think. A child used in the weaving work because s/he has small and thin fingures which work good in the weaving is seen as an exploited child because his parents are poor and they send their child to work at early age but if same poor parents send their kids to work in films then its not understood as child labour.
Darsheel’s family is a well to do family but what about those poor parents who force their childern to work in films and earn through their labour in the films?
Ministry of Social Welfare, Children film society or censor board takes any notice of this thing?
It was Baby Khushboo who had worked in the film Dard ka Rishta (1982) and she was around 12 years old then and by the year 1985 she had started coming as an adult heroine.
Media used to mention that in some cases Harmonal therapy was working and injections were given to some Baby this and Baby that to make them women, owning fully developed bodies, so that they could start earning big amounts for their families.
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Most of the child actors have ended in opting acting as their career. Daisy and Honey Irani were quite successful child stars but none of them could make it big once they grew up.
Sachin and Sarika both started as child actors and got some reasonable success after growing up.
Neetu Singh also started as a child actor and became a successful star actress and married to Rishi Kapoor and has been living a successful married life since then.
Padmini Kolhapure, ofcourse saw successful transformation from a child actress to a successful actress also.
Master Mayur who played Amitabh Bachchan’s childhood character in many hit films could not become a successful actor in later life.
Same happened to Jugal Hansraj who won hearts of millions in Masoom but could not become a successful actor.
Pallavi Joshi and her brother Alankar also started acting as child actors and later Pallavi got some success in TV serials but could not make any significant name in films.
Perhaps Alankar did not pursue acting acreer and joined some other profession.
We have no clue what happened to Master Bittu and Baby Gita.
Master Raju and her sister Poornima became popular through Gulzar’s films but after growing up Raju could not do much in films.
Same had happened with Junior Mehmood, who was very popular during childhood but could not make anything once attained adulthood.
Dimple Kapadia was in school when she did Bobby and clearly it was difficult to pursue studies after the bumper success of Bobby. Though she did not do films rather she was married to then super star Rajesh Khanna but surely this whole affair and so big success at that younger age might have affected her life for ever.
Rekha had to start working in the films at very young age because she was the only earner in her family. Her first director and hero of the film even managed to take a kiss scene without even informing her and hero had suddenly kissed her. It was a clear case of sexual exploitation but nobody bothered.
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These actors who start at very young age and get success in childhood should pass through many difficult phases in real life.
Do they miss this fact that they could not live their childhood in normal manner?
Does society care, what happens to these kids who get success at so early age? Do they live normal life? What happens when they dont get good success after gaining the maturity?
We have Maneka Gandhi like people who would lift sky on their heads and would not allow any filmmaker living with peace if s/he has used any animal in the film and scene shows some kind of violence against the animal. But what about Human child?
Do we care about them?
Do we have some psychological study devoted to these cases?
Doesn’t it make an interesting area to consider as its connected with lives of many kids who try to enter in to acting profession at very young age?
Acting profession is different than sports or singing profession and more risky as acting profession does not provide a respectable tag of Ex-Actor. Ex-sportsman can get some recognition or respect but nothing can be earned through having a label of Ex-actor. It does not add anything on CV of anybody. Once out of acting profession, person is good for nothing. Tag of being a failed actor is a big bad label.
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an interesting question you have posed here RK. honestly i never thought about child acting /child labour equation.
most countries have strict rules regarding use of children in the the entertainment industry.
hours of play, hours of study, hours of sleep, amount of time the child can be on the set etc etc. (Aus, UK and US primarily developed countries)
im not sure if anything, any rule at all exists in India
sad situation for darsheel.. he was suggested by aamir to lay low after TZP and concentrate on studies. but someone else was perhaps guiding him to appear all over the media and tv.. and endorse products.. he is cashing in on his success.. so it’s natural his friends are getting jealous for all the attention he is getting..
DPac,
In some cases where Child Actor’s parents are poor and their kid is working in the films just to earn money, its the clear case of Child labour, if rules have to be followed strictly.
single dimensional thinking of people on these issues is really a matter of concern.
Last friday an official of an international organisation was opining— Ohhh but you see India has this problem of child labour and people exploit them in weaving business especially in Saree type weaving and they should be in school at that age. and an Indian officer was also moving his head in up and down direction to show agreement. It is a very nobel thought to put up all kids in school. But is Government able to bear expenditure of education of all kids? and if yes then what after the hours they spend in school? and what will they eat? how to spend time after the school hours? and what happens when their poor parents fall ill and they have to work at home also?
weaving was their skill as its skill of rich kids while they paint or learn music or pursue any other hobby or parental traditions.
Sons of Amjad Ali Khan can give presentations at the age of 9-10 and can earn money but sons of weavers cant follow family tradition?
When people are not bothered about sons of Amjad Ali Khan whether he is sending his kids in school or not because he is rich and he can arrange education at his home also then why to bother much about poor kids who are not following crime but are engaged in works which their families have been following since centuries?
Why poor kids cant get literacy while doing works also.
It is a better situation than to take out them from work and leave free so many of them follow drugs and small crimes.
Society did good to take them out of labour but did not arrange for alternative to keep them busy and educated so many of these kids spoil their lives.
Void is not a solution it should always be filled with some better alternatives else it creates more dangerous entity.
@Badmash,
and many of his friends may be more good looking and more talented in many areas than him, so that kind of jealousy is fine because this was a special opportunity given to Darsheel.
Money is easy, quick and more and fame is multi fold in entertainment business and because of many TV shows, awareness and desire to join entertainment industry has been increased multifold. If some study reveals that its on top in India then it should be a strange fact.
a very interesting topic RK ….never though of child actors in the context of child labour .There should be some norms and regulations on child actors..infact there will be..but again who follows them ….
eheh Rk, thats a lopsided argument. I bet sons of amjad ali khan’s sons did not forgo basic education to carry on their family tradition.
basic education is what the constitution talks about. if any child can study in school and still learn their family trade noone has an issue.
anyway, there is no one unilateral solution for this. and it ideally has to be dealt with in a case to case basis.
government ka tho baat hi nahin karoonga
a lot of ngos still do remarkable work in this area.
DPac,
because Amjad Ali Khan is a rich man and he can afford any kind of education.
But for a poor its a stigma to keep his kids at home because he cant afford them to send to the school. A poor is cursed for this inability.
We can take example of Shammi Kapoor and one of his son. He deliberately did not attend school or college education after 10th and as their spiritual Guru advised him, he joined a firm to learn business.
Do we see any harm there? Is it necessary to take Diplomas and degrees distributed by universities to run a life? and on top of that Govt. runs vocational courses so that unemployed can learn these courses to earn livelihood.
and on other hand poor kids are stopped from working.
there is contradiction.
Poors need work first as that is the first need to survive and education comes later and education given at work site only can help them more.
all the rest is theoretical preaching.
For poor–
To send them school is not again a single dimensional affair. It consists of many factors.
Kids will spend atleast 8 hours a day at school, they need food there. Now govt. arranges food through anganbadi, though its highly corrupted area and people earn a lot through the food resevred for kids.
Sending their kids school means- both the parents remain there to work all those hours and if their livelihood is based on daily wages then situation becomes more serious when either or both of the parents fall ill. and school means home work, and like rich kids they also need help.
Its no so easy thing.
Some years ago I was surprised to hear from a poor man, when he said that he wants many sons at his home because then he can have more hands to support him in running the house. and he saw no harm if his 10 year old son was working along with him in the field. Today I understand his condition more than the past as then it was theoretical impact of Swami Agnivesh kind of work and ideology.
That poor man needed a better solution than a preaching that his son should go to school instead of working in the field.
@Anand(5)
as people fear about Animal right’s law they will fear child labour law also once its brought in clear language.
My own NGO is in ICU because of serious illness of lack of Funds but in near future, we will be entering in this field.
Many others are already working. Its not that there is no progress but its also a fact that earlier people saw this problem with one sided POV only and they harmed poor more than they could help them.
RK, If we were to survey children in any school anywhere in the country, 9 out 10 will raise there hands if asked if they wanted to opt for acting as a career.
Have you noticed the rise in the number of so called talent shows on TV? Their auditions attract hordes of kids, and their star struck parents. The money is great,but the fame is greater.
Their logic is, if I won’t participate someone else will.The cruel side effects of losing in such shows are kept away from the viewers.
This is entertainment, actors of all ages are required, the show must go on.
I’s absolutely disgusting. His parents should have some pity and shame- one day he is paraded to open a video game parlour, the next day he is at a TV news interview, the day after, he is endorsing something. And then they shamelessly complain-”Media iske peechche pad gayi hai.”
RK,
you work for an NGO…thats great man …..can you put some more light on it …..
@RK
Exactly, there are always two sides to every story.
There has to be an incentive for a poor family to send their kids to school…what good comes from high school education? Why should they spend all that money on education instead of health-care or food when the child is anyway going to end up as a vendor or a rickshaw driver and go through similar hardships?
Surprised to see so many people here never saw acting by children as a possible case of child labour.
Anyway, apart from the question of parents sometimes forcing children into these glamorous careers for money and fame, I guess all the adulation by media etc. at such a tender age might also affect a child negatively.
PS: Your NGO? Is there a webpage?
neeraja says “what good comes from high school education? Why should they spend all that money on education instead of health-care or food when the child is anyway going to end up as a vendor or a rickshaw driver and go through similar hardships?”
How do you know child will end up as rickshaw driver in future ? The only thing that can salvage a poor family’s situation is higher education. If my poor parents had thought that way & not educated me, I would be an illiterate daily-wage worker. In fact when my parents said they will mortgage our house to bank and send me abroad for higher education, my neighbors & relatives laughed and said tumhe apni aukaat main rehni chahiye, how can poor family from village think about foreign country, you should just take a loan and open one vegetable shop & then your son can sell vegetables and manage the dukaan. That is literally what they said, to my face. My parents told then to fuck off and borrowed huge loan from SBI to send me abroad because I was doing well in 10th standard exam.
Today my net liquid assets is atleast 500,000$. That much just liquid cash. If I add all my assets its a nice seven figure sum. All of that because somebody trusted this poor village kid and took a chance on him instead of thinking about some short-term difficulty like how daily wages will be impacted. Doing farming and weaving in the village just because your parents did these things is not tradition, it is height of foolishness. There is no future to these things. 10 years from now you can bet your ass all farming even in India will be completely industrialized and done by machines. Already in the US, less than 5% of population work in farms & we produce so much food we actually have to throw it away to keep prices stable. Everything is done by machines. And weaving ? Sons of weavers should follow family tradition ?! Please. This is your vision for poor children of India, that they should weave their way to success ? The only sensible alternative is higher education, at any cost. Even if you have to take a big loan, its fine. Once you are well educated, you can reap million fold.
lurker i think what neeraja meant was high school education and not higher education………govt just provding funds for high school is not enough….kids need higher education for good living like what you have now ….you achieved this only after your higher education ….
I dont know if this is a coincidence. But a similar topic was also there in rediff today. Check the below link :
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/apr/22sv.htm
Btw, Kamal Hassan and Sridevi were missed from the list. And what about Koi Mil Gaya child artist turned Aap Ka Suroor heroine Hansika ?
very good article..very thoughtful..good insights..hope some responsible & able person takes notice..tc.God Bless!
In 1990, Dilip Ghosh, a FTII graduate, made a documentary on child actors in Hindi cinema called CHILDREN OF THE SILVER SCREEN. The film was screened at film festivals. It explored the blood and tears behind the chubby faces of people who were once famous as child actors but could not make it when they turned adult. Naaz, who was once famous as Baby Naaz (BOOT POLISH) and was said to be charging more than some stars of the time, said in camera that she came back home to parents who fought all the time and forgot to give her a proper meal. She was never allowed to touch a paisa of her earnings and was thrust into adult roles much before she turned eighteen. Daisy Irani, another famous child star of the Fifties, said that she failed twice in the same class because she could not attend school having to report for shoots at all times of day and night. “My mother took the easy way out - she took me out of school and sent me back to the studios.” Her mother would pinch her hard when she refused to cry in sad scenes. “I was allowed to save money in a piggy bank. But my parents would never allow me to open the bank and find out how much money it had. One day, I opened it secretly and was shocked to find just a few coins at the bottom,” she recalls. The directors spoiled her rotten and she grew into a studio brat who no one could tolerate but were forced to smile at. After marriage and three kids, Irani says she feels sorry for her mother “because she did not know what she was doing to me, and more so, to herself.” Her kid sister, Honey Irani went through a similar grueling childhood till she married Javed Akhtar and later shifted focus to write stories and scripts for films. Baby Guddu, a very successful child actor of the eighties, was pushed into films by a father who claimed to be a ‘producer’ and a mother who had starry ambitions for herself that failed to come about. “She is brilliant in studies,” said the mother to this writer in an interview, “but we have put her in films because she is very talented and we allow her to do this purely as a hobby.” Really? Which ‘hobby’ fattens the parents’ bank balance like a career in films do, tell me? What happened to the poor little rich girl no one knows. But this writer remembers the little girl coming back from school in uniform, dog tired at the end of the day, only to be asked to freshen herself up as she had to report for a night shoot.
In the past, child actors were exploited and victimized by their parents and families. Today, it is the same story with the media adding to the villainy by ensuring that child actors like Darsheel are martyred for a cause that does not exist - media-hype at the wrong time and place that could destroy their lives and careers forever.
http://tinyurl.com/59qgj5
jab-main-chota-bacha-tha
photos of childhood of many stars
http://tinyurl.com/663gxh
c big b, kajol nd aishwarya during childhood:d
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lurker
that means india shd be most happy country in the world becoz inspite of low literacy level india is the country having largest population of graduates… nd millions r unemployed becoz they got higher education but no real skill to earn bread nd butter…
pls tell me also how u made those millions with this understanding… perhaps ppl like me also can earn 1/10th of ur assets;)
so ur country america throws food in sea while world is dying by hunger nd u support it?
shame shame shame…
u ve left ur parents in india or they ve also migrated to wonderland wih u?
du u plan 2 do 4 ur old country with ur millions of dollars?
:-?
shashi kapur..rishi kapur…urmila…bobby deyol…al had been child actor also
@rk(7),
u keep forgetting i am talking about basic education , not degrees and diplomas. as you said i see no harm in imparting vocational training and employment for a livelihood for children.
(ps:vocational courses have their merits and demerits, but thats an entirely different topic. )
@lurker(13)
Read Anand’s comment after yours to see what I meant.
I don’t think I need to tell you that there are NO good jobs after school education and a huge majority of those who make it to school, do not go further ie. for higher studies(which also does not guarantee a good job).
Do I think there should be equal opportunities for all and people should be ready to break traditions that no longer make sense and be ready to grab these new opportunities? Yes!
Do I think a weaver’s son should be a weaver? No!
Do I think knowledge of weaving or any other knowledge that is usually termed as ’skill’ should be considered any less than things that are taught inside a university? No!
Anyway, if I want to argue with you on everything you said I’ll have to go into a lot of things that do not deserve a place here…so lets just forget about it or lets talk after 10 yrs.
Comments are ‘The Writer’s Cut’ when it comes to blogging…
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‘The Writer
RK,
heard the other side of story today. Shatrughan Sinha is making a film with Rekha directed by Ramesh Talwar needing a child artist for a leading role. When he approached Darsheel for that role, he asked 75 lakh for the role, much much more than Rekha asked and refused to do the film on any lesser.. He is already a star!!!
@Arun (9),
Attraction towards entertainment business is more because money is proportionately more than what people get in other fields. and fame is the another big attraction. One can be a big achiever in his/her field but he/she still can be a fan of a film star or TV star. These stars surpass others in terms of popularity.
and children catch this trend.
and truth is when they feel that what they have been doing during cultural programmes in school, same is done at TV or in films and some kids are gaining money and fame by doing same work then why not to try it. Is it very difficult for them to participate in cultural programmes at school? They reherse and do.
In the begining, acting etc are understood as very easy work and we almost we all know and believe that everybody can do a little bit of acting and there needs no certificate for this.
Dont we see 99% star sons and daughters end up doing films. This will be very naive to take it as their passion towards cinema or acting or film making.
Children see that their otherwise illustratious parents are so eager to meet their favourite stars or how they may leave their usual restrained behaviour just to get an autograph.
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This is true that in entertainment kind of areas people of all age are required but adults can look after their affairs themselves which kids can’t do. and rules regulations should be same for all the sectors. Either here in entertainment its wrong or in other areas. time to time, society has to analyse situations. Whatever is good should be accepted.
@Jahan,
in spiritual world they sing,
Hari naam ki loot hai loot sake to loot.
In materialistic world its money. Everybody has started believing that stardom is for short time period so maximum earnings should be made during that phase.
When one thinks that there will be destruction all over then s/he thinks that “But I will be saved somehow”. Nobody sees himself/herself dying or getting affected.
Darsheel’s parents may also think that other child stars might have suffered but our Darsheel will not suffer as we are too capable and intelligent and can take care of our son.
Lets see, how and what time decides for this kind of trend.
@Neerja (12),
Surely coverage in media all the time will be affecting psyche of any child. when adults cant remain unaffected then what to say about kids?
But it cant be stopped. Media sees these things as items and media is not going to stop this trend.
Parents have bigger and tough responsibility to take care of their children.
Media is busy in blind race of TRP it cant be stopped.
TRP is understood as guarantee of survival in the business and survival is one area where everybody becomes hard to the extent of cruelty.
@Comment 25:
Writer’s Cut much like Director’s Cut in DVDs… you know the things he would have wanted to be in the movie but got chopped off at the editting table…
Writer’s Cut will be replying to all the comments here… I think the author RK has written more replying to comments than in the actual post… Extended writing if you may…
lurker (13),
I am afraid there are gaps in your understanding.
If you take a pause and see the mirror then you are a proof of what has been said here. But perhaps you need to read it in direct way.
Knowledge has never been dependent on money or means. If mind is progressive then it will evolve come what way.
Those who are good in studies, its very seldom that pverty has stopped them. If one has to go for higher education then s/he will go inspite of all the economic hurdles.
You were good in studies so you went for higher studies. Even if your parents were not sending you to abroad you would have done good by remaining in India also. Nobody can stop a good mind. ( Sorry for being personal but its very ambigous for me to accept that a poor family may have house in a village which can be sold to get enough funds to send their son to abroad - UK or USA or Australia etc where education has always been expensive. Cost of real estate in villages of india has not been much)
Ramanujam was not having any means but that poverty did not stop him to gain the brilliant knowledge of mathematics.
Many years ago all the MBA institutes were producing graduates ready to work in the management teams of companies doing business. Very few had that entrepreneural desire inside them because it was understood that education means job and not business.
Time changed and somewhere many business management graduates might have got this idea that when they can do hard work for others who ae not as educated as they are and when these less educated business people can do business then why we cant do. Many became entrepreneur and today the idea to start own business is seen as intelligent, brave and good decison.
and at the same time, its also true that many of the big business houses of the world have been satrted and progressed by people with less school and college based education or what we say education defined by certificates.
Later case suggests that a certain kind of evolution is needed in a certain field to get success. a certain vision is needed.
This is a field of concern when work is given tags in India as you still carry inspite of living for so many years in USA.
Subhiskha retail store chain is also selling vegetables and its a respected brand.
If tomorrow son of a vegetable vendor is not given a guilt that he is doing a low valued work and he gets education and he also opens such a store in the city then its called real development. Such development helps family, country and local scenario.
You are easily ignoring facts that riches follow heritage and new generation inherits business from their parents. Since childhood they are given education at home so that they can handle their family business. We dont find anything objectionable here because they have money and they are creating money. They know how to make more money from their existing money.
This idea to take away family work and give them guilt instead that they have been doing a low status work is very cheap and it should be removed.
Son of a vegetable vendor also has full right to make his future as he likes. He should get all education what he wants but he should not be given this guilt of doing something lower work.
India has enough unemployed young people and if only theoretical education was helping people then we could have created a heaven in India.
There are many reasons behind your food or food grains generation theory. Please confirm who does farming in developed nation and what governments do for them and how much subsidy is given to them to opt farming. How their kids get free education and how they get tax benefits.
and you being a villager in your early childhood, might be knowing condition of Indian villages and farmers.
This idea that Missoni’s designs are wonderful but almost similar designs previaling for centuries in villages of Rajsthan and Himachal Predesh is the root cause.
When a certain this kumar or that kumar borrows those designs from villages and rural areas or from tribal places then they are seen with high reputation because designer has a big name in society and a tag is there that s/he will be doing something big.
Certainly these villagers dont know the importance of marketing and they are unable to recognise the demand of present time and here they lack proper modern education. Those who know modern market they earn from same stuff for which these villagers have been ridiculed.
This is not a good situation where a kid, using his whatever artistic skills in making a saree beautiful during the weaving stage, is seen as mere labour and a kid of same age, making stupid painting is seen as budding painter. First child is given a guilt and second is given tonic of praise.
Objection is on this point. Both kind of childhood
need proper encouragement and at same time both need different kind of treatment to get same level of education.
This is not necessary for the son of a weaver to become a weaver but its also not necessary for him to leave this work. Once he is educated he and his skills will decide where he wish to go.
His ways are tougher than the kid who has luxury to be indulged in the painting. This poor kid has to support his parents in earning meals of two times.
We cant give him guilt of doing a lower work. He needs more and better and mature kind of encouragement.
this is the paradigm of discussion and not that poor kids should not be given education.
@Vimal (15)
There are many other child actors who are left.
Link of HT is there in the very begining of the post to quote the sayings of Darsheel.
Not only Rediff but today I see same topic covererd by many portals and newspapers in last 1-3 days. Our post was ready and saved as draft by early evening of 21st April but was posted on 22nd april(yesterday).
Moreover this topic, (as you can find in the post, other than the particular case of Darsheel and in comments), was there under consideration for sometime now. Darsheel’s case gave a headline and proper timing.
@munis(16)
Thanks for your kind comment:)
@krishn (18,19)
Thanks for information about documentary of Dilip Ghosh.
Do you have any link for that? Is it available on Youtube etc?
It will be very nice to see that Documentary.
Thanks for childhood pics of stars. Kajol, Urmila still have same laughing style.
Aishwarya has changed a lot.
Good to see these pics of childhood of many stars.
Good collection.
@DPac(22)
No I am not forgetting basic education point.
Importance and necessity of education can not be over looked. There is no alternative of education.
Basic problem is
(1) Kids should be given proper basic education and later higher education
Sub problem associated with this basic problem is
- How, when and where to impart this education to poor kids.
Like Ayurveda and Homeopathy suggest Humanbeing are not crowd of sheeps that all can be moved by one stick.
Different Humanbeing have different situations and different problems and hence solutions can not be same for all.
That idea is old now where NGO used to attack on poor areas to preach them that they should send their kids to school. That idea is not working properly. Many poor people have been harmed by this NGO approach. Old NGO approach was just to give education anyhow and every other thing wil be solved automatically. No its not true. We have examples before us now that this approach has been failed in majority of cases.
We need to search new ways.
I am not entirely focussed on what I said previously or what you said in past.
Nothing is for the sake of argument. Many things I will mention in nonlinear way to cover the topic from different directions.
A problem is there and if minds can see it and can think over it.
I am focussed on new ideas, throwing new light on the problem and not on points which we already know.
Dire need of basic education is not denied anywhere.
@Pavan(26)
When he is in market and is willing to do many films then its his professional right like any adult star has to get his price.
We have to see how things shape in future. as we know that past examples of child stars have not been very encouraging.
@Jahan,
Thats called acting!!!
Who says parents of child stars cant act:d
Dont you remember scene from TZP where Darsheel’s on screen father goes to Darsheel’s on screen teacher, i.e Mr Aamir Khan and tells him that his wife has searched articles on internet regarding Dyslexia and he further says that he wanted to tell so that Mr teacher does not take impression that they belong to those parents who dont care for their kids. They do care.
So what was shown in film is happening in real life. Sad thing is here they wont find any Teacher who may show them right path (good for their kid) :(