Kochi,
Avijit,
Shanti Das,
Manik,
Puja Mukerjee
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This film is a portrait of a group of unforgettable children in Calcutta's red light district. Feisty, resilient and wickedly funny, they are the children of prostitutes. Trying to evade a doomed futu...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
Stats: 1,066 reviews
A story and a message that should be told as much as possible.
My Mother tends to say, do whatever you want, but when a Hungry Human is standing infront of your Door no matter if he/she your foe, never send them away hungry. Feed them.
We take so much for granted living here in the US. These children live in abject poverty.
Precious kids in a well-made and heart-wrenching documentary. I had problems with the depression factor. It was way gritty.
Interesting story. There is an unimaginable world in Indian slums, but a photographer changed the future of the Inidian kids. It shows the greatness of the Indian kids as well as photographing.
Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's harrowing documentary is alternatingly heartwrenching, inspiring and deeply disturbing. Zana Briski is an American photographer who went with collaborator Kauffman to film prostitution in Calcutta, India's red light district. What she discovered wa...( read more)
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to appreciate what they have and wants to recognzie what many people and children have to endure just to live life.....yet there remains hope.
Beautifully filmed, and devoid of the kind of patronizing beneficence that First Worlders often bring to the Third World. full review
The movie is a record by well-meaning people who try to make a difference for the better, and succeed to a small degree while all around them the horror continues unaffected. full review
This is the kind of film that reminds you of what movies, at their best, are capable of. full review
Zana Briski's documentary about children growing up in Calcutta's rough and squalid red light district is moving, charming and sad. full review
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