Thanks Maa (transl. Thanks mother) is an India Hindi language drama film, directed by Irfan Kamal,[1] distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment India. The film focuses on child abandonment in India. It has been officially selected to be screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival,[2] Pusan International Film Festival,[3] Montreal World Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival,[4] International Film Festival of India and Palm Springs International Film Festival.[5] The debut child actor Master Shams Patel has also won the Best Child Artist[6] for the film, in the 56th National Film Awards.
| Thanks Maa | |
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| Directed by | Irfan Kamal |
| Written by | Irfan Kamal Vishal Vijay Kumar |
| Produced by | Quantum Films |
| Starring | Master Shams Patel Master Salman Master Fayaaz Baby Almas Ravi Mahashabde Master Jaffer Baby Sakshi Barry John |
| Cinematography | Ajayan Vincent |
| Edited by | Amit Saxena |
| Music by | Ranjit Barot |
| Distributed by | SPE Films India |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Plot edit
A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).
Municipality's rock steady determination ultimately helps him emerge a winner against all odds as he reaches the child's mother. Though in the bargain, he loses his 'God like' & flawless image of a mother he used to anticipate in his dreams. A mother, who he hoped, would come searching for him someday at the Municipality Hospital, where he was abandoned 12 years back.
The film ends showcasing some of the real-life issues of abandoned children and the misery they face in their day-to-day lives.
Cast edit
- Master Shams as Municipality Ghatkopar (W)
- Master Salman as Soda
- Master Fayyaz as Cutting
- Baby Almas as Sursuri
- Master Jaffer as Dhed-Shaana
- Baby Sakshi as Krish
- Alok Nath as Warden of the Reformatory
- Raghubir Yadav as Peon of the Municipality Hospital
- Barry John as Priest at the Church
- Sanjay Mishra as The Cab Driver
- Ranvir Shorey as Mr.Motwani
- Mukta Barve as Lakshmi The Prostitute
- Jalees Sherwani as Head Eunuch
- Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
- Subrat Dutta
- Balkrishna Shinde as Tatya langada
- Ayesha Raza as Motwani's wife.
- Rasika Dugal as Krish's biological mother.
- Yatin Karyekar as Krish's biological father.
- Rukhsar Rehman as Municipality's biological mother.
References edit
- ^ "Straight from the street". Mid-Day. 22 May 2009.
- ^ "EIFF to host 23 world premieres". Screen Daily. 6 May 2009.
- ^ "PIFF Day One: In Review". The One One Four. 10 October 2010.
- ^ "IDream buys Thanks Maa; to screen five films at Cannes". Business of Cinema. 8 May 2009.
- ^ "India's five films make it to Palm Springs International Film Festival". Economic Times. 28 December 2009.
- ^ "Beginner's Luck". The Indian Express. 8 February 2010.
External links edit
- Thanks Maa at IMDb
