Completed - HINDI - Bollywood, First film, Social issues - 101 minutes
Jhalki ... a different childhood, set in the backdrop of child labour and trafficking, takes you through a bedtime folk story and by the time you wake up, you definitely want to be a part of the revolution.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Brahmanand SIINGH, Tanvi JAIN Writer(s) : Tanvi JAIN, Brahmanand SIINGH, Kamlesh kunti SINGH Cast : Boman IRANI, Divya DUTTA, Tannishtha CHATTERJEE, Sanjay SURI, Joy SENGUPTA, Aarti JHA, Goraksha SAKPAL Producer(s) : Brahmanand SIINGH (Mobius Films), Annand CHAVAN (OMG)
Jhalki … a moving tale of lost Childhood, is a lyrical story of the search of a 9 year-old girl for her 7 year-old brother against the backdrop of bonded child labor in the carpet weaving factories of India.Like countless other kids from her village, one fine day, her beloved brother is traded-off in a very unlikely situation for the family. A seven year-old kid who was used to fun and freedom in spite of the existing poverty is suddenly thrown into an inhuman world of child labor with no respite from a terminally gloomy, dark and depressing workplace.Jhalki decides to follow her instincts and not take the trade-off lying down. In the process, she ends up running into obstacles of the system that only aids child labor --- bureaucracy, corruption and exploitation and so on. Armed with a folk story of a tireless sparrow that gets her lost grain of food back for her children, a never-say-die attitude and an uncanny presence of mind, Jhalki eventually becomes instrumental for a snowballing movement that frees Babu, her brother, along with thousands of other children caught in the vicious trap.
Country(ies) : INDIA